Date   : Wed, 04 Aug 1999 10:23:59 -0600
From   : "Rick Galbraith" <rick_galbraith@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn

Do You know how much marketing exposure Acorn got in Canada?
Pracitcally zip.  There were some computers put in schools and other
sponsoring institutions, like libraries, in the province of Ontario, but that was
because of an Ontario government program.  Our library in the little 
northwestern Ontario town of Dryden (Now a city of 10,000) had a
bench with seven of them, even the librarian used one in his office. 
They were put in in 1986, and were used quite heavily, mostly kids
playing Elite.  Only one had a printer. I was an adult in my mid-thirties
at the time, and wanted to learn computing.  Thank God for the BBC,
it was easy enogh to learn after a little mini-course.

I bought my BBC, secondhand but never used, in 1990, from a library in 
Keewatin (next to Kenora), another Northwestern Ontario community
an hour and a half closer to Winnipeg, Manitoba. (In northwest Ontario
you measure distance by travel time by car to Thunder Bay or Winnipeg.
Those two cities are eight hours apart, at 90 plus kilometres per hour.)

My Beeb sits, rarely used but well loved, right beside my 486sx.  You can
guess what the sx stands for, just as it sounds.
Did I say that?

Cheers, 
Rick.

ps: I still want a RiscPC, or at least a new system with Risc OS.
Guess I'll have to order one from the U.K. when I have some dough.
(er, moo-lah, cash, you know, funds in the bank?)


Rick Galbraith, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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