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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!<UNAUTHENTICATED>+
  2. From: Michael.Witbrock@cs.cmu.edu
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
  4. Subject: Upgrade policies
  5. Message-ID: <MedCu0_00j_HAIO5BY@cs.cmu.edu>
  6. Date: 2 Sep 92 08:40:32 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: cs.MedCu0_00j_HAIO5BY
  8. References: <Mike_Noreen.07m8%cave@sweden.eu.net> <1992Sep1.103749.18984@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <1992Sep1.131609.29495@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au>,
  9.     <1992Sep1.161521.14376@athena.mit.edu>
  10. Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
  11. Lines: 14
  12. In-Reply-To: <1992Sep1.161521.14376@athena.mit.edu>
  13.  
  14. > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.misc: 1-Sep-92 Re: AA chipset in
  15. > the A3000.. Hsu I-wei@athena.mit.edu (2904)
  16.  
  17. >  C= could try selling the traded-in machines at severely reduced prices,
  18. > but I don't know how practical this would
  19. > be. 
  20.  
  21. Or they could give them away, for free, to schools, in return (perhaps)
  22. for an Apple II, or PC, or for nothing at all. They could then give the
  23. Apple II and PCs away, for free, to the local landfill (or recycling
  24. plant, or scrap metal dealer).  This might actually give C= an inroad
  25. into the not very lucrative, but very influential education market.
  26.  
  27. michael
  28.