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It was named after Wellington Polytechnic, where it was developed.
In 1983, Apple dropped the price of the Apple II for schools from $4800 to $1200, and although Customs forced them to raise it again to $2020, the Poly was left a long way above the market price, at $8090. Polycorp (as the manufacturers were called), were quite peeved, but still managed to sell the computer in China until the late 80s.
-There is scarcely any information about the Poly available.
Bits and Bytes vol. 1, No. 1 has a feature article on the Poly vs Apple controvesy, [which I
roughly summarised | http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/ada_list/2005-July/001016.html]. There is [another article elsewhere | http://www.embassy.org.nz/computer/progeni.htm], but apart from that the web knows nothing of the Poly.
+There is scarcely any information about the Poly available. Bits and Bytes vol. 1, No. 1 has a feature article on the Poly vs Apple controvesy, [roughly summarised by Douglas Bagnall
| http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/ada_list/2005-July/001016.html]. There is [another article elsewhere | http://www.embassy.org.nz/computer/progeni.htm], but apart from that the web knows nothing of the Poly.
The stuff website has an [article from April 2006 celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Poly | http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3645342a28,00.html]. A 4th year research project on the Poly ([Retro-computing | http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/ok/topics06.htm]) was offered at Otago University in 2006, but at this stage we do not know if it was taken up.
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