1.   Atari wants to link home computers to school computers via telephone lines.

2.   Sheelagh Mullany, a business studies teacher, is using school computers to teach word-processing to a group of parents.

3.   A high percentage of all students with access to school computers say they are given very limited time to actually use them.

4.   Access to school computers is equally important.

5.   All school computers would have to use filters, and public libraries would have to have at least one machine with a filter.

6.   California is already spending plenty of money on school computers.

7.   Charge admission, and use the cash to buy school computers.

8.   Companies like Zap Me, which is based in California, offer schools free computers with screens that include continuously flashing ads.

9.   Computers just might make a dent in that pattern, Cuban said, though school computers are generally underused.