The development and spread of inexpensive microcomputers is posing major challenges for the current educational system, challenges based to a large extent on grassroots developments. While the potential for intensive use of computers has existed for a long time, the high price of computers and the continuing expense of maintaining communication with a remote central facility proved prohibitive in many cases, and almost always required some benefactor to support the project.
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