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From: reich@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Dick Reichenbach)
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Subject: Re: Educator discount list:  Is there/should there be one?
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Date: 14 Mar 91 21:34:38 GMT
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In article <1991Mar11.175031.1781@spool.cs.wisc.edu> so@brownie.cs.wisc.edu (Bryan S. So) writes:
|In article <1991Mar11.082920.7396@hoss.unl.edu> leo@hoss.unl.edu writes:
|>Every once in a while my department has some money to spend on software or
|>hardware.  Inquiring recently, however, I found that nobody on this campus
|>seems to have a general list of educational discounts available.  I'm
|>aware, of course, of Borland's educational pricing scheme.  And I've heard
|>of one or two others.  ............
|
|Talking about educational discounts, 

Yes we were.  Some companies (I am talking specfically about WordPerfect
Corp) offer some really good ones.  Mail order WordPerfect is about $250,
Students and others here at OSU buy for $139.  AutoDesk Corp. offers 
AutoCadd for about $500, (I belive it retails for about $2500)

Belive it or not(R), IBM's on campus are actually COMPETITIVE with other
companies.  The best deal on campus on hardware is probably offered by
GRiD corporation.  If your willing to go off-campus and still get educational
discounts, Zenith is right in line with IBM and GRiD.

I work as a consultant, and when asked about buying PC compatibles, I will
offer the 3 price lists and they are all within $200 for the basic same
computer.  Of course, I don't reccommend the IBM all the time. 
MicroChannel boards arn't that easy to come by.

And of course if you are talking about educational discounts, you have to
mention Apple Computers.  But I won't, because this is an MSDOS newsgroup.
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