Happy 30th MacIntosh

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:38 AM, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote: The only reason my family could afford a Mac in the late 1980s was because I was in college and there was a substantial (30%?) educational discount when ordered through educational channels. My mother fronted the cash for a new SE (4MB/20MB) and we left it at her shop where it was networked to her Laserwriter. She used it during the day and I used it at night for writing papers and such (I walked by her shop on my way to and from class). This was before all students had access to decent computers and laser printing (when the printers were still several thousand dollars), so it was a pretty sweet arrangement for me. IMO, 30% off list was barely tolerable, but 50% would have been far more palatable. There was no way we would have bought new at MRSP; we would have bought a 2-to-3-yr-old machine at the newest. As it was, the SE was a replacement for a 512K Mac with DoveSnap memory and SCSI. -ethan