Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!amiga From: amiga@athena.mit.edu (MITAUG Staff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Hard Drives Message-ID: <9504@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 28 Feb 89 05:43:17 GMT References: Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: amiga@athena.mit.edu (MITAUG Staff) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 33 In article witting@topaz.rutgers.edu (Paul K Willing) writes: > >... >Last, but far from least, I am a student here a good old Rutgers >College. I heard that WordPerfect had a student discount plan, and >the on campus computer store here sells IBM PS/2's and MAC's at cost. >Unfortunately, they are not currently offering Amigas. I was curious >whether a Student Discount Plan might be available, or if any attempts >were being made to introduce Amigas to College computer centers? >Also, does Commadore offer any any financing options? It seems the >college market would be important to Commadore, as the system a person >begins with is often the system he stays with. I esp want to hear >from our man in Commadore about this one. >-- > 6 6 >Witting@topaz.rutgers.edu `--' We had alot of problems trying to get C= to offer a student plan here at MIT. They insisted that the microcomputer center act as a full dealer and handle reapirs etc.... also strong objections were heard from a local dealer about unfair competition (This local dealer does s**t to move the amiga and related software hence no one buys there). Currently, I think, there is a deal that C= offers if the amiga is bought with a requisition from the school (ie students can't do this). If you can convince whomever is in charge of school sales to act as a distributor on the campus you might be in luck ... Ric Carreras ARPA: carreras@lees.mit.edu bix: carreras