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From: jacurtis@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Jeff Curtis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: **MARKETING QUESTION**
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Date: 3 May 90 00:22:04 GMT
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Reply-To: jacurtis@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Jeff Curtis)
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	Here in Syracuse you see the same thing except that there is one
Amiga dealer just outside the city (Compters Etc.) but Syracuse University
refuses to even support a Commodore machine.  When I had a question on
Kermit for the 64/128 (one of these days an A 500 is mine- when I can 
afford it) the University's Academic Computing Service refused to answer
my question because I own a Commodore computer and they do not support it even
though at least one of their consultants is an expert Commodore user.  

	I think the educational discount is a step in the right direcito, but
the company must also use advertising better.  This last campaign made the
Amiga look like an overgrown game machine instead of the serious computer all
of us know it is.  They had the same problem with the C64 because noone knows
that one can do things like Desktop Publishing or other business needs on it.

Jeff Curtis

internet: jacurtis@rodan.acs.syr.edu