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From: elg@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Hardware/Software Developers discounts?
Message-ID: <8033@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 7 May 89 16:44:49 GMT
References: <103013@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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in article <103013@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) says:
> In article <1376@ndmath.UUCP> milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes:
>>Does anyone out there know if Commodore still offers a Discount on hardware
> position, then sign up as a developer. They will let you buy a system
> at a discount directly from them. 

I might point out that mail order is pretty darn close to what CATS
does, at least on the computers (now, on things like the 2090A you can
get a good discount via CATS, but there's better/cheaper controllers
out there). If your sole purpose of seeking developer status is "good
discounts!", you're probably barking up the wrong tree... 

(price info is from a friend who bought a 2000 through the developer
program last year, and my looking at mail-order prices at about the
same time). 

Anyhow -- the developer program is for folks developing commercial
software. As such, they send you AmigaMail (lots of "inside info"
about AmigaDOS, most of which appears in Transactor-Amiga a few months
later in different form) and AmigaMail Markets (how to market
commercial software -- lots of info about marketing in foreign
markets, last issue I looked at). If that's what you're interested in,
contract Lauren. But if you're just an Average Joe who occasionally
hacks his Amiga, not only is the developer program not for you -- it's
not even worth it ($50 signup fee plus $50/year?).

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