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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 + AMAX == IIci?
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Date: 24 Sep 90 00:38:29 GMT
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In article <4488@sage.cc.purdue.edu> ar4@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes) writes:
>What makes one University's educational prices different from another?
>Here at Purdue University, the IIci with 4MB RAM costs $3820. The same setup
>with an 80MB Quantum drive is $4286.


  I believe it depends entirely on the amount of money the school as a whole
spends on Apple products in a given month.  There are four categories, and
the more a school buys the less they pay.

  It may be tied to either the number of systems purchased or the number of
students, also.  I can't really remember.  I did once see an academic price
list with all four categories listed.

>What also upsets me is that these prices are listed as up to date as of
>September 15th and they exactly match the prices listed as of August 15th.
>Wasn't there a significant drop in the IIci's price before/on September 15th?
>When will this be reflected?!? (If ever...)


  Didn't the IIci price change appear on the August 15th price list?  All
that appeared on the September 15th price list were some changes of RETAIL
for a few items and a little renumbering.

  Of course, I'm only familiar with the Apple Partner price list and not
with the educational list, so things might be different there for some
reason.

-- Mark Wilkins
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