Steve Jobs came to my university in 1984 to push the Mac, where he told us that we students could buy one for half price. At the same talk he rattled off all the flaws of the PCjr and said the famous line "IBM should do us a favor and just throw them all in the Hudson."

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NetMageSCW 2 days ago | parent [-]

VT did deals early(ish) in the home computer era to provide incoming CS students with discounted computers and the first deal was with Apple for Lisas with hard drives, and the next years deal was with IBM for PCjrs. Fortunately I arrived just before that.

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chuckadams 2 days ago | parent [-]

A discounted Lisa still cost in the neighborhood of a new car at the time, and given the failure rates of its weird "Twiggy" drive, probably in the shop about as often.

	▲	dreamcompiler 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I bought a Lisa in those days for $5000 which was half price, including a 5MB (!) hard disk. It used the same floppies the Mac did. Apple had already removed the twiggies by that time.