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From: bigbroth@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (James M. Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Educational pricing
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Date: 22 Feb 91 21:07:27 GMT
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From article <1991Feb22.173743.17495@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, by es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita):
> In article <1991Feb22.171128.11944@ns.network.com> guy@ns.network.com (Guy D'Andrea) writes:
>>So what is this I hear about the Educational prices Ok'd for purchasing
>>single items... not just whole systems?  I heard this started Feb. 2nd and
>>is to go through April 1st.?  I just called my local dealer and they said
>>Commodore changed their minds and will NOT do it now.  What is going on???
>>You tell me?  If it is valid, give me a name + number so I can call them
>>myself please.  Thankyou
>>
> 	Not that I've heard. They may change their mind after
> April 1, but for now it is still on. Insist that your dealer put
> the order through anyway, and if Commodore doesn't accept it, it
> isn't their problem, so they have no excuse for not doing it.
> 
>>
>>-- 
>>_____________________________________________________________________________
>>   Guy  Dandrea @ Network Systems Corp., 7600 Boone Ave No, Mpls. MN 55428 
>>   guy@nsco.network.com #129.191.1.1       (612)424-4888 Fax:(612)424-1736    
> 
> 
> 	-- Ethan

I have just gone through the same headache.  The local Educational dealer knew 
nothing about a new program but called Commodore to find out.  While I was
waiting for
them to return my call I decided to call Commodore and find out for myself
what the status is.  I called their main office around 12:00~1:00 today
Friday 22 and was told that the Educational program scheduled to go in effect
February 1st did not really go into effect.  It is being revamped and will
be released Early in March.  The person I spoke with was not much help
and had a hard time committing to much of anything.  When I called back 
the local dealer I pretty much got the same story with one additional
note, Howard Diamond, as well as some of his staff have been fired for
a lack of results.  NOTE: this was from a dealer NOT Commodore so I am
not 100% sure of it's truth.  Either way, would someone of authority from 
Commodore please update us to the status of the Educational program
and get the word out to the dealers.  I had the feeling that the
dealer I spoke with was as upset as I was about not being to answer
my questions.

	Jim Coleman


A story for the Education people at Commodore:

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and
Nobody.  There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it.
Everybody was sure Somebody would do it.  Anybody could have done it.  But
Nobody did it.  Somebody got angry at that because it was Everybody's job.
Everybody thought Anybody could do it.  But Nobody realized Everybody
wouldn't do it.  It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did
what Anybody could have done.




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If Commodore were to come out with a shirt-pocket, 100 MIPS Amiga
with 20 megs of memory and 1 gig of disk, and sold it for $300,
the first thing the industry would ask is "Is it IBM compatible?".
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