Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!rutgers!cbmvax!diamond From: diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com (Howard Diamond - Ed Marketing) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: info on cost of Amiga 3000 and educational discount Message-ID: <14837@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 3 Oct 90 13:51:40 GMT References: <41@atacama.cs.utexas.edu> <1990Oct1.081257.9102@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1990Oct2.001348.29170@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Reply-To: diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com (Howard Diamond - Ed Marketing) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 53 In article <1990Oct2.001348.29170@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) 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 > > Here is the real story. Howard Diamond loves replying to >the net so I thought I'd give him a chance to post, but the >rumors are getting out of hand. Sorry, Ethan, I've been out of town.... > NON-EDUCATIONAL A3000s: All comes with 2MB ram and the >MHz/HD as specified above. Not anymore...Ethan was correct, but now, ALL 3000/25/100 cpu's come with five meg, ed or not, bundled or not. > EDUCATIONAL A3000 BUNDLES: The BUNDLES come with the >MHz/HD configurations as above. They all come with 2MB ram except >for the 25/100 which has 5MB ram. See above, and, of course, the price for the cpu has been raised to cover the addition ram, but only a tiny bit.. > > When you walk into a store the standard A3000 25/100 >comes with 2MB ram, it is only the educational discount bundle >that has more memory. For $3,899 you get 5MB RAM, 100MB HD, 25MHz >68030/882 and the A1950 multisync monitor. > -- Ethan > >Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu > >*Iraq += *Kuwait; >NumCountries--; > >and by popular demand... > >free(Kuwait); -- Howard S. Diamond Director of Education, Commodore Business Machines 1200 Wilson Drive West Chester, Pa, 19380 diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com 215-431-9142 MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND!! AMIGA!