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From: rsfinn@athena.mit.edu (Russell S. Finn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple educational discounts
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Date: 4 Feb 91 22:32:38 GMT
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In article <15590011@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>, kmcintyr@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Kevin McIntyre) writes:
|> Can anyone tell me if Apple Educational discount is the same everywhere?
|> I live in Boise, Idaho and went to the local store ...

To obtain an Apple educational discount, you usually have to be a registered
student (or perhaps an instructor) at a university which offers such a discount
program; you then purchase equipment through the university.  For instance,
here at MIT we go to the MIT Microcomputer Center, which sells at a slight
markup from the educational price (which presumably goes to support the service
center).

Going to your local dealer and asking for an educational price probably won't
work (as you discovered); he's probably annoyed at Apple and the university for
selling equipment at a price he can't match, thereby drawing away customers he
thinks he would have been able to sell computers to.

(Of course, I bought my IIsi from the Microcomputer Center, and couldn't have
afforded to do so from a regular dealer, so no sale was lost in my case...)

-- Russell S. Finn
rsfinn@{athena,lcs}.mit.edu