As the Apple Turns: Scene 93: Yale Schmale (10/17/97)

Yale Schmale (10/17/97)

The lovely and talented Donna Ladd, the freelance journalist who broke the news about Yale and the Intel Grant Scandal of 1997 (we think we'll call it YaleGate), wrote us to let us know that she has posted a long list of colleges and universities that have received money from said Intel grant. The total sum exceeds $90 million. That's a lot of shiny-metallic-boogieing clean-room freaks.

Yours Truly is saddened to see that my alma mater has accepted $5.6 million worth of equipment in the deal. School would have been a lot less fun if I'd been struggling with NT instead of playing around with Unix. Given the grant's request for proposals (which gives preference to proprosals stressing the use of NT), it seems likely that MIT does in fact plan to start migrating away from its Sun and Digital workstations towards Wintel boxes. It's enough to make me hurl, but at least I'm out and can use my computer of choice.

It should be noted that while all of the posted schools are accepting free Wintel boxes to replace Macs and Unix machines, none of them is implicated in situations similar to Yale's. Please keep in mind that the reason Yale is being singled out for investigation is because the head of their ITS department told all of the incoming freshmen to buy PCs instead of Macs earlier this year, apparently in an ethically-bankrupt attempt to win the grant. The only crimes of which these other schools can be accused so far are:

Disregard for the quality of their students' computing experience; and
An appalling lack of taste. :-P

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The above scene was taken from the 10/17/97 episode:

October 17, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

92: Two Faces of Newton (10/17/97) Whom to believe? We were ecstatic when we read Mac the Knife's description of the long-rumored upcoming Newton MessagePad 2100; after all, who wouldn't want a splefty little handheld outfitted with the new StrongARM 1100 chip running at 200MHz, and capable of driving a color LCD at 1024x1024?...
94: MacInsider Rumors (10/17/97) Following MacInsider's recent abrupt and mysterious shutdown, Macintouch today posted that the plug got pulled shortly after Apple representatives visited the MacInsider offices. When coupled with Webintosh's suspicion that MacInsider was run by two ex-Apple employees who were laid off in last March's reorganization, we're starting to see some pretty serious clues as to who's behind the recent Ninja Attack Campaign that's shutting down Mac-centric web sites faster than you can say "The Mob Killed My Brother."...

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