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From: BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga Ads (was RE: New Educational Discount Prices)
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Date: 5 Sep 90 05:42:28 GMT
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In article <14176@cbmvax.commodore.com> diamond@cbmvax (Howard Diamond - Ed Marketing) writes:

>PS,  Amiga ads will run in student newspapers at some fifty campuses
>tomorrow....and full color inserts will be in the papers next week at the
>same campuses....Let me know what you think of them....ads will be running
>on those same campuses on a regular basis all fall...as well as some 
>special promotions....
>
>MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND!! AMIGA!
>
>Howard S Diamond
>Director of Education, Commodore Business Machines
>1200 Wilson Drive West Chester, Pa, 19380
>diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com  215-431-9142
>

   Here's hoping that ISU is one of those campuses!  I think they had better
be VERY good, though, as Apple and IBM have really been bombarding the ISU
Daily since the beginning of the semester.  

   Apple ran full or half-page ads in every issue last week, for yet-another
Macintosh Product Show in the Union.  Today IBM got into the act with a
quarter-page ad pushing the PS/2 (what else?) bundled with Windows 3.0.

   The problem is, there is absolutely no Amiga support here at ISU.  The
nearest dealer is 35 miles away, much too far for most students.  Besides,
why should they have to go even one mile out of their way when there is
much support from Apple and IBM located on-campus?

   So, unless Commodore backs up the ad with a new Amiga dealer, I don't
think Commodore should waste their time or money on ISU.  Without support,
any ads run in the ISU Daily would be fruitless.  If the ads did convince
someone to look at the Amiga 3000, where would they go to get one?  The
need to have to drive 35 miles just to look at one would be enough to
make them decide to just get an inexpensive 25Mhz 80386 system (which
can be had for as little as $1400 now).

   Unfortunately, I don't think the situation here at ISU is the exception,
but is far and away the norm for colleges and universities in the U.S.


                                     -MB-