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From: dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga Educational Discount Available
Message-ID: <10398@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 90 06:42:27 GMT
Reply-To: dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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I was just down at my friendly Commodore Amiga Dealer this afternoon.
He mentioned to me that he could make my day, if only I was a student.
Sure enough, I am, and sure enough, he did.  Commodore has, as of a
few days ago, started educational discounts.  

Before I start any uproarious whatevers, please consider this as coming
only from a customer, and don't construe it as an official announcement,
BUT I do have the form from Amiga; it looks real.  I  understand it is 
an extension of the discounts Amiga has been giving to teachers for 
quite a while now.

One goes straight to Commodore with your request; you can't march down
to your dealer and come home with a system.  It has to be shipped to
your dealer, whose responsibility it is to verify that you are a student.

Now for the prices (that were quoted to me, and AREN'T OFFICIAL by any
means!) that don't include $30 shipping, or sales tax (if applicable.)

500 system, including
	ram expansion
	extra drive
	1084 Monitor
for $799

2000 system, including:
	extra floppy drive
	XT Bridgecard
	1084 Monitor

for $1,599  (list is $3,196)


2000HD system, including:
	2286D AT Bridgecard
	1084 Monitor
for $2,579 (list is $4697)

2500/30 system, including:
	2286D AT Bridgecard
	1084 Monitor
	3 MB Ram
	40 Meg Hard drive (Quantum, 19ms access time)
all this for...$3,679  (retail: $6697)

If this is all true, Amiga has really got a competitive system (the
2500/30 especially) to go head to head with the best of Mac or NeXT.

Please remember that I could be full of it, my Dealer could be full of
it, or I might have goofed typing in otherwise correct prices (I tried
not to.)

I think this is really great news!  Here's hoping it's going to work.

dylan
dylan@cs.washington.edu