On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Arnould Nazarian wrote:
> I had published here and in Quanta a long article about the QL as a education toy
> (when was it? nov 99?). It would not require the fastest possible machine,
> but a QL based on the Dragonball processor and designed at the lowest
> possible cost. Which is also an interesting challenge, I think, for a hardware
> designer. With a QL based design, it would be possible to do better
> than any of the existing toys. Hence I believe that the possible market would be
> at least 5000/10000, possibly up to 50 000 per year.
>
> However this idea did not raise much interest.
Hi Arnould,
Schools are very risk averse, and a difficult market to sell into. They
have many special needs: high durability, long live, unbreakable, cheap,
cheap or zero cost upgrade cycles, and transparent (to clearly show the
principles being taught.
The actual form of the QL is interesting to them, because it was all
self-contained.
I keep on going on about SBCs because they are ideal to insert into TFT
LCD monitor cases to make an all-in-one machine - that would be truly
ideal for education.
Dave...
