C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh) (02/13/90)
The following information came in a letter to a member of the Columbia
Commodore User group. It details a new student consultant program for the
Amiga. I remember several posts about the need for this type of
program, and here it is! Since I haven't seen this information pass by on
comp.sys.amiga, it is quoted here without permission (If you are interested,
please see my comments after the quoted material.):
[December 15, 1989 from Michael Levin, in-house student consultant at
Commodore in West Chester, PA]
As Commodore's first student consultant, it is my assignment to inform
user groups of Commodore's promising new student Amiga consultant program.
We all know that no one can win people over to Amigas better than we, the
users. And as President of the Philadelphia Amiga Users' Group, I know
that there are lots of us out there who do it just for the satisfaction.
This is a resource that has not been well utilized in the past and we hope
to welcome a number of you aboard Commodore as official Amiga On-Campus
Student Consultants, or ASOCC's.
This program will find enthusiastic Amiga users like myself who are
students at a college where there are instructors who are using or
considering the use of Amiga technology in their courses. After
consideration of each case, Commodore Higher Education Marketing will
select and recruit Amiga Student On-Campus Consultants from among the
submittals received from this survey.
The responsibility of an ASOCC would include assisting Amiga users on
campus (students and faculty), providing communication between the campus
and Commodore, assisting with the placement of local advertising, and
fostering a group of on-campus Amiga Computer users. In return, the ASOCC
will be paid a weekly stipend, receives discounts on Commodore equipment,
and is provided with business cards and a laminated ID card. They will
have electronic-mail access to appropriate Amiga technical personnel.
There will be no quota responsibilities and most of the promotional
activities will be supported by area sales.
The student consultant program is finally an opportunity for us to
participate in the promotion of the machine for which we have such
enthusiasm; bringing Commodore closer to the users in the process.
Announce the ASOCC and educational discount programs at your user group's
meeting and survey the members to find the university students. Pass the
student survey on to them and carefully consult others in your group to
fill out the first user group survey and mail it in including any further
suggestions you may have.
I am a full-time student at Drexel University in Philadelphia and am the
in-house student consultant at Commodore in West Chester. I can be reached
by mail or over the Bitnet as "MIKEL@CBMVAX.COMMODORE.COM" I think that
this program is just the type of thing that people like us have been
waiting for. There's nothing like getting benefits for doing something you
like to do anyway.
[signed "Sincerely, Michael Levin"]
end of quoted letter
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Ok, just a few comments here. First, there were a couple survey forms
included with the letter. If you are interested pleae mail to Mike and
request full details and forms. Second, while the letter states that you
can reach CBMVAX via bitnet, I believe that machine is actually on the
Internet. In any case, I know the mailer here won't be able to send mail
to MIKEL@CBMVAX.COMMODORE.COM. You might try using the following address:
cbmvax!mikel@uunet.uu.net
Surely some mailer-guru can reply here with better suggestions for getting
your mail to someone on cbmvax.
Disclaimer: I am not associated with Commodore in any way save having
purchased computers from them. I post this information here in hopes that
it will be beneficial to students/faculty who may read this newsgroup.
o__ Baird McIntosh (2nd yr CS/Math major, University of Missouri-Columbia)
|__ c503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu <-or-> c503719@umcvmb.bitnet
| "CS215:Systems Analysis = legitimate CS-requisite or death by boredom?"es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) (02/14/90)
>Ok, just a few comments here. First, there were a couple survey forms >included with the letter. If you are interested pleae mail to Mike and >request full details and forms. Second, while the letter states that you >can reach CBMVAX via bitnet, I believe that machine is actually on the >Internet. In any case, I know the mailer here won't be able to send mail >to MIKEL@CBMVAX.COMMODORE.COM. You might try using the following address: > > cbmvax!mikel@uunet.uu.net > >o__ Baird McIntosh (2nd yr CS/Math major, University of Missouri-Columbia) >|__ c503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu <-or-> c503719@umcvmb.bitnet > | "CS215:Systems Analysis = legitimate CS-requisite or death by boredom?" I've been trying to reach Mike for three weeks now without reply. Either he doesn't have access to the system or he is ignoring us. It is not that the address doesn't work, as I've reached John Harrison over it. From what I've been told by Commodore, the details of the ASOCC program are not yet completed. When I know, I'll post it here (if I'm not beaten to it 8). Also, the distinct impression I'm getting is that, although Commodore is putting a lot of effort into higher education, that effort (including the related money) is all going to the schools which have Amigas in use academically. Here at Columbia I have a friendly dialog going on with J.H., however we are not getting any substantive support, at least not after I heard what CBM's doing for Ohio State! I do understand, and so am not bitter. However, we are considering going after a local dealer and working with them. -- Ethan Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu Compu$erve : 70137,3271 Anyone giving away Amigas or Sharp Scanners???