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Subject: MIT Discount Program Real Soon Now
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Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 04:18:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 16 04:18:08 1984
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From: Wang Zeep 
MIT's Information Processing Services and Purchasing Dept. are currently
putting the final touches on a contract with Apple for Apple 32 family
stuff.  Discounts will range from somewhere around 40 to 60%.  Apparently,
price is not the real issue; Apple's and MIT's respective responsibilities
are.   The opposite is true for the IBM contract that is being negotiated
concurrently; IBM is good on service, but lousy on the discounts.  This
program would be open to any members of the MIT community.

While most of the people reading this list are not from MIT, I thought
that following might be of interest to all: Apparently MIT did not join
the Consortium because the contract called for too much equipment to be
pruchased by MIT (and was to be signed without seeing the Mac).  Apple
is said to want to get MIT into a pseudo-Consortium as soon as possible.
Personally, I don't know why (SU, CMU, etc. are doing a great job of
making the Mac work), but that's the story.

			Your faithful correspondent,
			Wang Zeep
			Mass. Tool & Die
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