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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: What Commodore should do ...
Message-ID: <90122.093107UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 2 May 90 13:31:07 GMT
References: <18007@snow-white.udel.EDU> <20503@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Organization: Penn State University
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>In article <18007@snow-white.udel.EDU> BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc
>Barrett) writes:
>>
>>about this machine.  When Apple introduced the FX, they did something
>>Commodore should do: they held mini-expos at many technical universities
>>displaying it.  I know many people don't like Apple [I don't, either]

This is a good idea, but of course it takes lots of personel.  If Commodore
wants to loan me a 3000 for a month, I'd be happy to hit all the schools
in my area.  (Years ago, I did this for Osborne.  They obligingly went
bankrupt while I still had the machine, so I got to keep it for years 8-)

COMMODORE?  Listen up!  Here's a ***CHEAPER*** and maybe even better idea.

Commodore marketing.  Please send an understandable version of your
educational discount program to every college in the country, so that
when students go to there local college computer center or campus store
or whatever, the Amiga appears at an alternative.

For example, here at Penn State, if one goes in and asks what kind of
computer a student can buy, one receives a Macintosh price list, an
IBM price list, and a Zenith price list.  They'd happily hand out
the Amiga price list, too, I'm sure, if they had one.

Second, make the program clear and easy to understand even by people who are
not Amiga part number experts.