MECC

Overview

MECC (the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium) started as a state agency. Minnesota had bought lots of Apples and created this agency to write educational computer software for the Apple II throughout the '80s. The software was given away to schools in Minnesota and elsewhere in the country. This prompted many schools to buy Apples (besides ones that were donated in a big tax write-off by Apple itself). As a result, lots of Apple II-series computers were used for a long time in elementary schools and MECC became instrumental in Apple getting a hold on the educational market.

In the late '90s MECC was swallowed up by The Learning Company.

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