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Subject: Re: Apple Univ. Discount
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Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 11:00:00 EDT
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>>Can students at other Apple University Consortium schools buy LaserWriters
>>and LaserWriter Pluses?  They used to be purchasable by students at Cornell
>>until about a year ago when they became avaliable only to staff and faculty.
>
>Perhaps the demand outstripped their inventory capacity, though I doubt it.
>Insurance problems?  Who knows?

I would guess that, since the LW is such a big-ticket item, they
had problems with students reselling them at a profit.  I can't imagine
_many_ students able to afford a >$3000 printer for their personal use.
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