Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!fauern!faui41!hgschmie From: hgschmie@faui41.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Henning Schmiedehausen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: info on cost of Amiga 3000 and educational discount Message-ID: Date: 1 Oct 90 18:48:20 GMT References: <60277@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <41@atacama.cs.utexas.edu> <1990Oct1.081257.9102@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Sender: root@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Lines: 44 In <1990Oct1.081257.9102@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) writes: >> >>From the "Make Up Your Own Mind. Amiga" brochure: >> >>Amiga 3000/25Mhz-100MB HD System: list: $5798, Education: $3899 >> 25 50 4798, 3039 >> 16 50 4098, 2599 >Maybe poverty just gives me a keener grasp of reality, but look >at the list prices for the 25/50 and 25/100 systems; now take a delta. >I'd expect to get at least 250, and preferably 300, more megabytes >of disk for $1000 list, since I can just buy the 25/50 system and >go out and buy $1000 worth of second drive and have a much better >system in terms of head contention, etc. That 50 megabytes is >really cheap to add, a couple more heads and platters, you already >have most of the stuff in the disk box, so it should be much less >than 1/6 the price of going out and buying a 300 megabyte drive, >not equal to it. >I don't (much) mind a bit of profit built in for all concerned, but >pricing policies that are obvious rip-offs just send customers away >angry, and I have an extremely short fuse. Smarten up, Commodore. >Kent, the man from xanth. > I think it was rumoured that the A3000/25/100 has 5 Meg of Memory, and the A3000/25/40 just 2 Meg. I'm not sure about this, but it would explain the price-difference. By the way: Does anyone of you know, if these educational prices are also out of the U.S. (e.g. in Germany :-) :-) )? Henning +-------------------------------------------+--------------------+ | hgschmie@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de| Space is big, | | hgschmie@faui41.informatik.uni-erlangen.de| Space is dark, | | (Henning Schmiedehausen, Glueckstrasse 3 | it's hard to find | | 8520 Erlangen, West Germany, 09131/209611)| a place to park | +-------------------------------------------+--------------------+