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From: ali@navajo.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Educational discounts (was Re: The trouble with the Amiga)
Message-ID: <1185@navajo.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 00:46:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  8 00:46:40 1986
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In article <4098@jhunix.UUCP> ins_adjb@jhunix.UUCP (Daniel Jay Barrett) 
writes:
>}}Oh Commodore...if you only seeded Amigas here at MIT like apple and ibm do,
>}}things would really get rolling..... .    MIT sells poor unsuspecting
>}}freshmen IBM's and Apples at special discount prices without even informing
>}}them of the Amiga and its capability......wanna work out a deal ????
>
>}Yes! Yes!  Commodore, get your act together.  The largest groups of Amiga
>}owners I have seen have been college students.  Get an educational discount
>}system going(go for the high schools as well).  
>
>	This would be a fantastic idea!  Commodore, you are losing
>lots of prospective student buyers to Apple, here at Hopkins.  

Well, I vote a big YES too! Here at Stanford Apple and IBM are all
over the place. And (as I mentioned in an earlier msg before), there are
educational applications where the Mac and the IBM can't even dream of
competing with the Amiga. (I was talking about use of Amigas in networks
and OS classes, I've got several positive and no negative replies to that
query.) Another area is graphics --- Here at Stanford graduate students
taking CS248, graduate level graphics, use INTERPRETED PASCAL on Macs
to do their graphics assignments. My friend convinced the prof that 
she wanted to do the assignments in C on an Amiga, and (although she was
learning C and Amiga at the same time) had an easier time writing the programs
that most of the other students. Not to mention the fact the the programs
on the Amiga ended up being much more spectacular...

I want to see the Amiga in my bookstore! I would personally go hang around
the bookstore just so I could demo off the machine.

Ali Ozer, ali@navajo