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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some MAC and Amiga Comparisons. aka Marc blunders
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Date: 18 Oct 90 00:50:40 GMT
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In article <1990Oct17.175803.19261@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Alan Gerber) writes:

>Another problem is the one I've encountered. We want to buy an Amiga 
>for our research group. We started the process the second week in
>September. Not only do we not have our Amiga, the paperwork is still
>being processed by the university! Even worse, the local dealer who we
>have to go through has had his telephone disconnected! If we can ever
>get in touch with the dealer (who I understand IS still in business), it's
>another 4 weeks (according to C= service rep) for the machine to get
>to the dealer after that. This is all too much. I was on the verge of
>cancelling the order this morning, but since I lobbied so hard for the
>Amiga, I didn't (yet!).

	It sounds like you are getting the run around locally
(i.e. the university or the dealer). I know someone at Columbia
who got his Amiga 3000 3 days after he ordered it. I ordered mine
about five days before they showed up in the store for reglar
orders. It took two weeks.
	As a conflict with you Mac story, here are Columbia
students can wait months for their Macs, especially because of
the discontinuing of the Plus and SE.
	-- Ethan

Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

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