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From: rick@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Eric Ruck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: STs and Colleges: A Proposal
Keywords: st, universities, colleges, minix,unix
Message-ID: <3984@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 18 Jan 90 14:46:47 GMT
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Reply-To: rick@jhunix.UUCP (Eric Ruck)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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I think we should sell ST's to college students as just plain word
processors.  I am a creative writing major, and I know that dozens of
writing majors buy Macintosh computers every year because they like
the easy mouse interface.  I suppose that they think the ridiculously
long time it takes for the Imagewriters the buy to print is normal, as
well as the price they pay.  If they had ever seen an Atari ST, and
were informed of the student price of WordPerfect, I think it would be
dozens of easy sales over the course of a month.

Eric