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lisp and small machines

i was talking with fred lakin the  other day about lisp and my efforts  to
get courses  established based  on lisp  ideas. he  said you  were a  lisp
supporter and perhaps  could offer some  suggestions.  here's the  current
condition:

i've currently got a version of lisp-machine lisp running on z-80's  under
cpm.

i'm currently  putting together  an undergrad  course for  this spring  at
santa clara university based  on lisp's view  on computation. this  course
comes from an  grad version  called fucntional programming;  it will  turn
into:

1) a version for the summer cs institute.

2) a version for high schools

3) a book, and integrated course a la ucsd's pascal effort.

and perhaps (4) a REAL course in "computer literacy".

the problem: MONEY and support and MONEY. an integral part of this  effort
is an "interactive programming lab", because i don't believe you can teach
about computation  without  doing computation,  and  interactive  personal
computing makes sense: lisp, smalltalk, visicalc, graphics, music  --kinds
of exposure.

i'd initially expected support for a  company "committed to lisp, ai,  and
education" but they chicken-ed out last month, leaving me without support.
so i'm looking for other sources for approx $30-50K. any suggestions would
be appreciated.

john