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Article #19187Re: Apple Univ. Discount
From: tim
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1987 23:46
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1987 23:46
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In article <7042@dartvax.UUCP> merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) writes:
< Dartmouth, for example, is part of the Apple University Consortium and is
< producing Courseware and other neat things for the Macintosh, which are
< available free (or freeish) to other universities. Thus, since Dartmouth
< is doing this nice thing for Apple, Apple gives Dartmouth nice prices.
<
< Now, other schools may decide they can't afford to do this sort of development.
< Thus, they get less amenable discounts. It also depends on expected volume of
< purchases. In other words, it's different for every case.
<
< There are about three different programs, depending on how many purchase your
< school is willing to commit to over how long a period.
On the other hand, Caltech is not a Consortium school, and is not doing
much with the Mac, and can't possibly be expected to have high sales,
and has prices lower than any of the others that have been reported
on the net.
I guess it really is done on a case by case bases.
--
Tim Smith, Knowledgian {sdcrdcf,uunet}!ism780c!tim
tim@ism780c.isc.com
"Oh I wish I were Matthew Wiener, That is who I truly want to be,
'Cause if I were Matthew Wiener, Tim Maroney would send flames to me"
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!hplabs!sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim From: tim@ism780c.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Apple Univ. Discount Message-ID: <7318@ism780c.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 19:46:12 EDT Article-I.D.: ism780c.7318 Posted: Wed Sep 16 19:46:12 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 09:00:48 EDT References: <1504@killer.UUCP> <2284@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1269@pompeii.swatsun.UUCP> <7042@dartvax.UUCP> Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) Distribution: na Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA Lines: 24 Keywords: how much is it?