Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!rutgers!ucsd!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jm7e+ From: jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Educational Discounts (was Re: Support Apple II's) Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 89 07:00:17 GMT References: <8911141459.aa13231@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, <36493@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 41 In-Reply-To: <36493@apple.Apple.COM> mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes: > As Rick Fleischman has already pointed out, but bears repetition: > >So then everyone says "so tell me why I can't buy a such-and-such at my school > huh?" Well, you're not a school. You're a student. Subtle though it may > be, there is a difference. > > As to why Apple II products are not available at such-and-such a school (or > most schools, or any schools) to students or faculty at a discount, I don't > know. If I have a chance, I might try to find out. Please do. I am the President of the Apple // User's Group here at CMU. We have rather ambitious projects in various stages of seeing reality, most notably a TCP/IP program that would run through Appletalk/Kinetics fastpath gateways (If an Amiga and PC can do it....) The Local Apple Computer Representatives were impressed by our ambition enough to try and get us a machine for development. But this fell through, because the Pittsburgh Division did not have a machine (they are a small operation) and could not carry enough weight to pull any strings. It was a major disappointment. They DID explain that Apple signs a Contract with University Computer Stores in the Apple University Consortium program. In short, No Non Mac Products (hey.... what is the one Apple product that's Non Mac?) The Irony of all this is that these same stores sell IBM stuff... seems counterproductive to me. I will NOT let this issue go. This is a deliberate moveby Apple. I want an explanation from those who imposed it. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | Jeremy Mereness | Support | Disclaimer: | | jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (internet) | Free | The above represent my | | r746jm7e@cmccvb (Vax... bitnet) | Software | opinions, alone. | | a student at Carnegie Mellon U. | | Void where prohibited. | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------