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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Rappahannock County Elementary School was one of the schools in the state which benefited from the Allen administration's gift of surplus state computers.
Democrats have criticized the program as politically motivated since the computers went to schools in districts where incumbent Republican legislators were facing stiff opposition.
During the campaign Del. Jay Katzen announced that there were 30 such computers available to schools in his 31st District, and RCES would be getting 10 of them. The computers were declared surplus because the state work force had been cut back under the Allen administration, according to a press release from Del. Katzen's campaign.
Holly Pendleton, the county school system’s computer expert, said the elementary school received three 386 machines, six 286 machines and one 8086 machine, otherwise known as the PC-XT. He said they have not yet been put in use because they came with no software and the school is waiting for software it has ordered to
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