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Choice Prevails (7/17/98)
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Yalegate seems to have drawn to a relatively quiet-- yet satisfying-- close. When we speak of Yalegate, we are of course talking about the infamous letter sent to Yale's incoming freshman class a few months ago by Daniel Updegrove, who warned that Yale would not support Macs beyond the year 2000, and therefore all students should show up toting Wintels instead. (Did anyone else notice the irony of not supporting Macs beyond 2000, given that every Mac ever shipped has been year 2000 compliant?) Anyway, above and beyond the scandal of effectively "banning" the Mac OS was the revelation that Updegrove had applied for a huge Intel "migration grant" in the same time frame. which he had indeed won. Shifty, no?
Updegrove's letter caused a ton of uproar and outrage, both within Yale and without; for instance, the medical school effectively "seceded" from Yale's information services regime, stating that they'd continue to use Macs, encourage their students to use them, and support them all themselves if they had to. There were all sorts of fireworks going off. We hadn't heard much about this for a while, until MacCentral just posted that Yale's Microcomputer Sales Center now not only includes Apple systems, it actively promotes them-- and links to the Apple Store for Education.
Success! Whether Updegrove had a change of heart, or was simply overridden by someone a little more reasonable, is unknown. Perhaps Apple's recent comeback (including better education systems like the All-in-one and the coming iMac, as well as the Apple Store for education use only) simply convinced the higher-ups that Macs are still a viable choice; Apple has seen a sharp increase in education sales over the last quarter, following a steady decline. Or maybe Apple just figured out whom to bribe. Regardless, chalk up another school where the future of Macs seems a little more secure.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 7/17/98 episode: July 17, 1998: A quick little guess as to what former Disney Online head guy Richard Wolpert is doing next revives a forgotten party game. Meanwhile, Apple and CompUSA secretly meet in smoke-filled rooms to plan the massive ad blitz celebrating the iMac's release, and Yale University seems to have quietly reversed its "no more Macs" policy...
Other scenes from that episode: 862: Oh Yeah: "Interim" (7/17/98) It's time to revive a once-popular pastime that's fallen out of favor in recent months: "Guess the CEO!" Remember several months ago when speculating about who would take the helm at Apple was all the rage? It was practically the national pastime. Remember when things got really out of hand, and people started thinking that Lee Iacocca was going to fill Steve's shoes? Well, that fun little fad all but disappeared as Apple's "interim" CEO continued to kick more and more kiester as time progressed, until we reached our current state of hardly thinking of Steve as an "interim" anything... 863: Three-Ring Circus (7/17/98) Not one day after we once again bemoaned CompUSA's advertising of Apple systems (which typically ranges all the way from anemic to nonexistent), Reality posts comments from a source who claims the CompUSA rollout of the iMac will be enormous...
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