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From: docken@argos.uucp (William Dockendorf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fair and equal Representation
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Date: 22 Nov 89 20:01:38 GMT
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In article <375@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> martin@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Ross D. Martin) writes:
>In article <4539@lab.udel.EDU>, hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Anthony Adam Hill) writes:
>>      I talked to Gail Wellington at CA (she came down and talked at Informart
>>   in Dallas) and said that they were seriously thinking about entering the 
>>   University Education market (but everyone knows that right??). She even hinted
>>   at good educational and student discounts. 
>
>People at Commodore have been saying they had an educational program for 
>quite a while now.  I have never heard of anyone taking advantage of it.
>I have never heard any details.  All I have heard is that it exists.  Seems
>like vaporware to me.
>

>
>I'll believe C= has an educational policy when I see a usenet article
>explaining all the details.  That day I will rejoice.
>

  We recently had a person from Commodore come and speak at our Amiga user's
group and he had some interesting things to say.  One was that Commodore was
threatening to fire anybody who talked about unreleased products specifically
the 3000 and 1.4.  He also mentioned the "educational discount" but said that
Commodore was asking him not to push it since it was going away really soon
(at the end of December) and they didn't want to publicize it a lot and then
have people get mad when they found out that it had already ended.  He said that
anyone who was a teacher (or married to one, or had one for a parent, etc)
could get an educational discount.  I don't remember if he said that students
could get this also.  He didn't give any numbers but said that he would be
willing to give details to anybody really interested after the meeting.  Sorry,
but I didn't get to ask him for details after the meeting since somebody went and
elected me vice-president of the chapter (should have stayed home) and I was
kinda busy after the meeting trying to figure out what I just got into.  :-)

William Dockendorf