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Sep 20 2012 ∞
mn70s: Apple Computer Ad (Scientific American, September 1979) Apple Computer received a huge boost on September 21, 1978, when a state-supported organization called the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) awarded its first micro-computing contract to the fledgling Cupertino, California, company. The agreement allowed schools in Minnesota to purchase Apple II computers through MECC at a substantial discount. Over the next three years, MECC helped place more than 2,000 computers in Minnesota classrooms and, in the process, became Apple’s largest reseller. Image via ModernMechanix.com

mn70s:

Apple Computer Ad (Scientific American, September 1979)

Apple Computer received a huge boost on September 21, 1978, when a state-supported organization called the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) awarded its first micro-computing contract to the fledgling Cupertino, California, company. The agreement allowed schools in Minnesota to purchase Apple II computers through MECC at a substantial discount. Over the next three years, MECC helped place more than 2,000 computers in Minnesota classrooms and, in the process, became Apple’s largest reseller.

Image via ModernMechanix.com

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