hyy94@campus.swarthmore.edu (12/22/90)
I am a student at Swarthmore College in PA and was wondering if Commodore offers educational discounts to students? It's obvious that I can't buy in quantity, but as a student, my budget is pretty thin and I need to keep up with technology (I don't even have the ECS yet and the 1.3 rom cost me $40!). Think you can help me and other starving students?
mpierce@ewu.UUCP (Mathew W. Pierce) (12/27/90)
In article <2TNV8JW@cs.swarthmore.edu>, hyy94@campus.swarthmore.edu writes: > I am a student at Swarthmore College in PA and was wondering if Commodore > offers educational discounts to students? It's obvious that I can't buy > in quantity, but as a student, my budget is pretty thin and I need to keep > up with technology (I don't even have the ECS yet and the 1.3 rom cost me > $40!). Think you can help me and other starving students? I don't know the exact prices, but I believe that the A500P (AmigaVision, OS, RGB monitor, builtin ddrive and keyboard, w/1Meg mem) goes for $659 to students. The A500C (?), basically just an additional drive, I could be wrong though,( drive is additional to all stuff in A500P) goes for $759. The basic A2000 model with 2-ddrives, 1Meg chip ram, AmigaVision, OS,RGB monitor goes for about $1299 to students. The A200HD (?), comes with the A2000, 1 ddrive, 40 Meg Quantum, RGB, OS, AmigaVision and 1 Meg chip RAM goes for about $1599 to students. Then there is the A2500 with a 68000 CPU, a 68030 CPU, math coprocessor, 2 or 4 megs of 32 wide fast ram (?) 1 ddrive, 50 Meg quantum (could be 100 meg, I forgot) RGB, same software, 1Meg chip ram, for $2799 to students, then there is the A3000 pricing which is considerably lower than the A2500 for the 16MHZ version, and various other A3000 configurations ranging from > $2500 to around $4000+ for a really hot system. Sorry that I can't be more specific on the A3000 prices, they are great, but I forgot them. All in all, if you compare the hardware to price ratio of just about any other system, you will see that the Amiga offers the most bang for thebuck by a long shot. ( Please oh please no flames from the NeXters, the last part was sort of my opinion, but I did research heavily before buying my Amy , then I became biased, not before.) Yes, there is an educational discount program from Commodore, you just have to be a student/educational institute/educator and purchased through an autorized dealer to get it. Hope this helps, call an authorized dealer to get solid prices, the great deals are there. -Matt Pierce
diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com (Howard Diamond - Ed Marketing) (01/02/91)
In article <2TNV8JW@cs.swarthmore.edu> hyy94@campus.swarthmore.edu writes: >I am a student at Swarthmore College in PA and was wondering if Commodore >offers educational discounts to students? It's obvious that I can't buy >in quantity, but as a student, my budget is pretty thin and I need to keep >up with technology (I don't even have the ECS yet and the 1.3 rom cost me >$40!). Think you can help me and other starving students? As regular readers know, we have a full-blown Education program which grants significant discounts on all Amiga products. If you will send me your postal address, I will have pricing info sent to you. To forestall the regular "my dealer told me the Education program is ending" questions which seem to come up every few months, the Education program has just ended its first year, and looks forward to its second with gusto. We will be making some changes affective Feb 1, which are designed to enhance and improve the program, but the basic concept (ie, significant discounts for all Educational institutions, and for students, faculty, and staff in higher ed, and for teachers in K-12) will be continuing. As a new program, we are still evolving, but we appreciate all the support we have received, and the tens of thousands of people we were able to bring Amigas to in this market in the past year. -- Howard S. Diamond Director of Education, Commodore Business Machines 1200 Wilson Drive West Chester, Pa, 19380 diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com 215-431-9142 MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND!! AMIGA!