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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au!peterj
  3. From: peterj@uwa.oz.au (Peter E. Jones)
  4. Subject: Re: Sparc classic -- there *is* edu pricing
  5. Message-ID: <peterj.722076083@s11>
  6. Sender: news@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au
  7. Organization: Elec Eng, Univ of Western Australia
  8. References: <1dsdrdINNmel@almaak.usc.edu>
  9. Date: 18 Nov 92 08:41:23 GMT
  10. Lines: 24
  11.  
  12. ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
  13.  
  14. >Here is the data I got:
  15.  
  16. >EDUCATION PRICING
  17. > 
  18. >SPARCclassic
  19. >============
  20. >                                 List        End User  
  21. >                                =====        ======== 
  22. > 
  23. >15" color, 16MB, 207MB          $4,295       $3,356        
  24.  
  25. Down under in OZ the "discount" for educational users makes this machine
  26. AUD$8,500 - which gives an exchange rate of about AUD$1==USA$.39
  27. instead of about .69!  (At this rate Oz price should be $4,900 + ship'g)
  28.  
  29. Anyone know who is getting all those extra dollars?
  30.  
  31. --
  32. Peter Jones                             .-_!\   Phone: +61 9 380 3100
  33. Electrical & Electronic Eng            /     \  Fax:   +61 9 380 1065
  34. University of Western Australia --->>  P_.-._/
  35. NEDLANDS, Western Australia 6009            o   E-mail: peterj@swanee.uwa.oz.au
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