Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!crg5!lcline From: lcline@sequent.com (Larry Cline) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: What's the difference???? Message-ID: Date: 2 Nov 90 17:49:58 GMT References: <7244@cica.cica.indiana.edu> <15514@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Nov01.222619.16655@ecst.csuchico.edu> Sender: root@crg5.UUCP Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Beaverton, Oregon Lines: 62 In-reply-to: mrush@ecst.csuchico.edu's message of 1 Nov 90 22:26:19 GMT In article <1990Nov01.222619.16655@ecst.csuchico.edu> mrush@ecst.csuchico.edu (Matt "C P." Rush) >In article <15514@cbmvax.commodore.com> diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com (Howard Diamond - Ed Marketing) writes: >> >>NOT TRUE!!! You can't buy a monitor, or any other Non-cpu, unless you >>purchase a cpu, either as a bundle, or by the piece...but you don't have >>to purchase bundles...you can create your own, AND/OR just elect to purchase >>the cpu....so....in your example, if you don't need the monitor, you are >>able to just get the cpu, or even the cpu and an extra drive, or whatever. >>ALL Amiga products are available at an ED discount, and can be purchased, >>as long as a CPU is purchased. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Why is it that we MUST by a CPU to take advantage of the Ed. Discount? >Some of us poor students can't afford to buy everything at ONCE. But once we >buy our CPU/Bundle we have to pay full retail for any future expansions we >might want. > > Sure, I'd LOVE to be able to buy my A500 _and_ Hard Drive _and_ RAM >expansion _and_ monitor all at once, but I can't afford that. How about some >kind of deal for peripherals? > > -- Matt > > *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* > % "I programmed three days % Beam me up, Scotty. % > % And heard no human voices. % There's no Artificial % > % But the hard disk sang." % Intelligence down here. % > % -- Yoshiko % > % E-mail: mrush@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu % > *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* > This is a SCHOOL! Do you think they even CARE about MY opinions?! And for a long time C= didn't have any educational program at all for Amigas. Consider yourself lucky. The intent of the educational program is/was to put Amigas into education both institutional and home (as in have the same computer at home that you do in school) use. Since people who already have Amigas don't need a discount for the 'largest portion' (CPU), the offer is for 'with the purchase of a CPU'. Second, how many dealers would keep selling Amigas if C= took away a considerable portion of the peripheral sales by telling students that as long as they were in school they could buy on this program instead of from the dealer. The dealer is the primary source of C='s sales. If you alienate them then they won't want to sell the machines. If you mess with their sales, then you alienate them. That is why C='s current program use the dealer as a resource and pay them a fee for each ed. system sold. Otherwise, the only people who would be aware of the Amiga would be the large schools. The dealers are the ones who hit all the other thousands of schools that C= can't. I know because I did this for 3 years. So be happy with what you got. There are some who don't get any special discounts at all. Larry Cline lcline@crg8.sequent.com ".sig! Contractors don't need no stinkin' .sig!!!"