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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Using Amigas in a graphics class?
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Date: 2 Mar 88 18:47:08 GMT
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In article <5340@well.UUCP>, berry@well.UUCP (John Thomas Berry) writes:
> 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.  

They tried it (sort of) a decade ago with the PET.  They did a really
crummy job...cheap hardware (OK) prices, what software?  Support? What's
that?  (I remember that they had us at Apple worried for a long time.)

> 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 :-).

The Apple][ *was* a real computer 10 years ago.  And for all the
schools that use them and the students that learned (and are learning)
on them, they still are.  Is it their fault that nobody's shown them
differently?  I'd love to see Amiga 500s in my kid's school (to say
nothing about in my house!)...but I'm not holding my breath for C=
getting anything going in that area.

	seh