our sponsors and supporters:
it was Ian Taylor's UK Department of Trade and Industry, not the Department of Education that had the vision to back SoL and it did so by assembling a group of companies who gained early and, in most cases valuable, insights into how the web might work for learning.
Our sponsors and supports were:
- Acorn Computers Ltd
- Admiral Management Services
- Apple Computer, Inc
- Apricot Computers Ltd
- BNR Europe
- British Telecom
- BULL
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- EDS
- GPT Ltd
- IBM (UK) Ltd
- ICL
- Intel Corporation (UK)
- MARI Group
- M & G
- Motorola
- Oracle Corporation
- Research Machines plc
- US Robotics
Tom King of ICL chaired the sponsors and supporters group
and kept everyone's feet on the ground across the project.