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From: paleo@uncecs.edu (Constantine A. LaPasha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RE: Amiga Educational Discounts
Message-ID: <1990Jan20.023425.7118@uncecs.edu>
Date: 20 Jan 90 02:34:25 GMT
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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As stated by several others, I would like to see the Amiga educational
discounts extended to college and university staff as well.  The
univ. here has reasonable discount programs for IBM & Mac available
to students, faculty & staff.  Unfortunately, it seems to be
difficult to get an Amiga system at any of the state universities
here, especially for departments, since we are required to get
computer equipment through state contract and the state only
contracted for Amiga systems for grades K-12 ... smart, huh.

Anyway, I've been in contact with several local dealers concerning
the educational discounts, and they were originally under the
impression that it applied to students and teaching faculty for
grades K-12 only. ??? are they just mis-reading the papers or what?

If Commodore really wants to make inroads into the educational market,
I would think it unwise to ignore the college/university clientel.
And, IMHO, I think it would be beneficial to extend it to 
college/university staff as well.

 ... just my opinions ... 
Kostya LaPasha
paleo@ecsvax.uncecs.edu