Subj : Re: WinXP
To   : ROBERT FOWLER
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 10:06 am

-=> ROBERT FOWLER wrote to ALAN ZISMAN <=-

 -=> ALAN ZISMAN wrote to ROBERT FOWLER <=-

 AZ> In BC, in the interests of fairness, there are provincial grants made
 AZ> to school districts on a per-capita basis. Last year, my school's
 AZ> technology hardware grant was about CDN$800... which let me buy a new
 AZ> colour laser printer for my lab, but nothing else. We last bought new
 AZ> computers for kids in 2000, but have gotten a number of new-to-us
 AZ> donated computers-- in particular, we're using a bunch of donated
 AZ> Toshiba P120 notebooks and IBM P-II-450 desktops.

 AZ> Nothing looks likely to change this reliance on donations for all but a
 AZ> tiny proportion of our needs in the foreseeable future.

 RF>  That's too bad, since the relevance of your class will only increase
 RF>  with time.  Eventually, the gap between the old and contemporary
 RF>  will become critical, I suspect.

I agree... and started talking near the end of the last school year about the 
need to start planning for eventual replacement and upgrade.
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