Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!think!husc6!panda!genrad!decvax!wanginst!ulowell!miner From: miner@ulowell.UUCP (Richard Miner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: The trouble with the Amiga Message-ID: <833@ulowell.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 11:08:18 EST Article-I.D.: ulowell.833 Posted: Mon Dec 8 11:08:18 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Dec-86 23:57:59 EST References: <819@ulowell.UUCP> <545@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <1292@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Reply-To: miner@ulowell.UUCP (Richard Miner) Distribution: net Organization: University of Lowell Lines: 32 In article <1292@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> (Lyle N. Scheer) writes: >In article <545@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> (Amiga-Man) writes: >> >>Oh Commodore...if you only seeded Amigas here at MIT like apple and ibm do, >>things would really get rolling..... . >>Our Amiga group here is already 90 strong, with no incentives at all. >> Ralph, A Gradual Student at MIT >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). > Wonko the Sane (you call this SANE??) I third the motion for educational support, and have talk to Commodore about it. They are planning on starting educational support, lets hope that it happens soon. If you want to help things out at your local Univerities, one thing that you should probably do is contact both your University bookstore and your local Amiga Distributor (not dealer). Have the distributor contact the book store about becoming an Amiga dealer. I was down at Chapel Hill almost a year ago and they had done this. I just recently mentioned it to our local distributor, they seemed like the thought never entered their mind! I could not even begin to imagine how many Amigas they would sell if if they could set up all the local NE Schools as dealers. It's not only one of the best machines for students, but with ethernet and NFS now available, set up a lab with a FileServer and 10 Amigas and you save $100,000. Anyone thinking of porting Sun-NeWs? How about you 90 MIT hackers porting X-Windows? -- Rich Miner ...!wanginst!ulowell!miner University of Lowell, Comp Sci Dept (617) 452-5000 x2693 HAL hears the 9000 series is not selling. "Please explain Dave. Why aren't HAL's selling?" Bowman hesitates. "You aren't Amiga compatible."