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From: bradley@ut-sally.UUCP (David K. Bradley)
Newsgroups: net.college,net.cse
Subject: Re: Why force the AT&T at UVM?
Message-ID: <1814@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 4-May-85 20:53:32 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  4 20:53:32 1985
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Summary: 

In article <380@uvm-cs.UUCP> punia@uvm-cs.UUCP (David T. Punia) writes:
>
>	So why MUST these poor kids be FORCED to buy THAT micro?
>
>	At least partly because of the power of the almighty buck. In
>order to obtain the magnitude of discount that was negotiated, AT&T, and
>any other vendor, I imagine, needed some guarantee of volume.  This is
>the way things work in business.  That the machines are available at the
>price they are makes me wonder why anyone would WANT to choose a different
>machine!
>

For those of you that are interested, via a special deal with Apple students
(and faculty/staff, I beleive) at the University of Texas at Austin can buy a 
Macintosh with 128K, 1 external drive (in addition to the internal drive), 
Macwrite, Macpaint, and PRINTER, for ~$1600.  The same package with 512K 
is ~$2200.  Admittedly this does not include any compilers and thus is not
very useful to students in technical majors (without their shelling out 
more $$), however the machine has a lot of potential (68000 processor, good 
graphics, mouse, graphics printer, small enough to fit on a dorm desk :-)),
and once some good and inexpensive software becomes available it will be 
hard to beat.

David K. Bradley
bradley@ut-sally.UUCP