Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!well!berry
From: berry@well.UUCP (John Thomas Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Using Amigas in a graphics class?
Message-ID: <5340@well.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 18:04:15 GMT
References: <10260002@nucsrl.UUCP> <5094@ames.arpa>
Reply-To: berry@well.UUCP (John Thomas Berry)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <5094@ames.arpa> mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Mike Smithwick) writes:
>There is a local community college using Amigas for a "desktop video" class
>and I believe also in a generic computer graphics course as well. You may
>want to contact them and see how they're doing things. It is 
>Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Rd., Los Altos Hills, CA. The instructor
>is John Berry who wrote "Inside the Amiga with C". Sorry, I don't have
>a phone number.

 
You can reach me through the net address above or through the
Foothill College CIS department at:
       (415)960-4236.  They will get a message to me.  
I'd be glad to tell you about the desktop video class which has 
been quite successful. 
     By the way, we bought our Amigas at a local dealer and are
quite happy with our decision.  Commodore's education department has
been conspicuously absent from the Amiga marketing arena.  Perhaps they
should start trying to reach schools -- the Amiga is an ideal machine
for the education market.  The last time I talked to a Commodore rep --
at a computer show last year -- they seemed unenthusiastic about schools
and didn't even know whom I should contact in this area to talk about 
things like educational discounts.  There are lessons to be learned from
(dare I say it) Apple in this area.  Those folks sure know how to work
with schools -- they've even conned people into thinking that the Apple II
is a real computer :-).