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.