Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!srcsip!m5!kovach From: kovach@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Pete Kovach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A3000 Educational Discounts (Commodore Please READ!) Message-ID: <70270@srcsip.UUCP> Date: 2 May 90 18:08:22 GMT References: <122@coplex.UUCP> <11252@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: news@src.honeywell.COM Lines: 21 In-reply-to: sterling@cbmvax.commodore.com's message of 2 May 90 16:00:16 GMT In article <122@coplex.UUCP> dannie@coplex.UUCP (Dannie Gregoire) writes: > > I, being student, cannot hope to afford an A3000 at list price. I'm > sure there are many others in my situation. Commodore needs to have > a GOOD educational program in place for sales to become sucessful, and > to make amends with their dealers. I could go out and purchase a MAC II > (dread the thought) at a discount (not sure on %) and still receive > special reduced finacing through Apple. Sure could - Yep. You could buy a Mac II for a discount price, thus paying more than the A3000 at full price, and have less of a machine in the process. Sounds like a great deal to me :-) Peter Kovach I've owned IBM XTs, ATs, Color computers I, II, III, TI, Exidy Sorcerer, Pet, TRS-80 Mod I, Elf, and others, I've worked//with Mac I and IIs, but the only real machine is the ---- // \\// AMIGA \/