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From: sjbury@barred.rice.edu (scott j bury)
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Subject: Re: Mathematica for $49?
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Date: 25 Jan 91 19:06:28 GMT
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In article <h6Gqsm6@cs.psu.edu>, melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
|> In article <sandrock.664821204@aries> sandrock@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Mark T. Sandrock) writes:
|> 
|> 
|>    I just called Wolfram Research (the maker of Mathematica) directly -- since
|>    they are located here in Champaign, IL -- and was told that their student
|>    price for the Macintosh version of Mathematica is $139.  When I asked him
|>    about an alleged $49 price, his reply was that he doesn't know "what's going
|>    on there".  He said no way could Wolfram Research sell it for that little.
|> 
|> Aren't there two versions of Mathematica for the Mac?  Is the $139
|> version the Mac II program?
|> 
|> -Mike


Wolfram told me the $139 was for the SE version.


-scott