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From: mpierce@ewu.UUCP (Mathew W. Pierce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Question for CBM People!
Message-ID: <1372@ewu.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 90 08:56:38 GMT
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In article <2TNV8JW@cs.swarthmore.edu>, hyy94@campus.swarthmore.edu writes:
> I am a student at Swarthmore College in PA and was wondering if Commodore
> offers educational discounts to students?  It's obvious that I can't buy
> in quantity, but as a student, my budget is pretty thin and I need to keep
> up with technology (I don't even have the ECS yet and the 1.3 rom cost me
> $40!).  Think you can help me and other starving students?

I don't know the exact prices, but I believe that the A500P (AmigaVision,
OS, RGB monitor, builtin ddrive and keyboard, w/1Meg mem) goes for $659
to students.  The A500C (?), basically just an additional drive, I could
be wrong though,( drive is additional to all stuff in A500P) goes for $759.
The basic A2000 model with 2-ddrives, 1Meg chip ram, AmigaVision, OS,RGB
monitor goes for about $1299 to students.  The A200HD (?), comes with the 
A2000, 1 ddrive, 40 Meg Quantum, RGB, OS, AmigaVision and 1 Meg chip RAM
goes for about $1599 to students.  Then there is the A2500 with a 68000
CPU, a 68030 CPU, math coprocessor, 2 or 4 megs of 32 wide fast ram (?)
1 ddrive, 50 Meg quantum (could be 100 meg, I forgot) RGB, same software,
1Meg chip ram, for $2799 to students, then there is the A3000 pricing which
is considerably lower than the A2500 for the 16MHZ version, and various other 
A3000 configurations ranging from > $2500 to around $4000+ for a really hot
system.

Sorry that I can't be more specific on the A3000 prices, they are great, but
I forgot them.  All in all, if you compare the hardware to price ratio of just
about any other system, you will see that the Amiga offers the most bang for thebuck by a long shot.  ( Please oh please no flames from the NeXters, the last 
part was sort of my opinion, but I did research heavily before buying my Amy 
, then I became biased, not before.)

Yes, there is an educational discount program from Commodore, you just have to
be a student/educational institute/educator and purchased through an autorized
dealer to get it.

Hope this helps, call an authorized dealer to get solid prices, the great deals
are there.

-Matt Pierce