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$99 is cheap for pre-release access considering it used to be $500.

I thought $500 was if you wanted a Hardware Credit and $99 was prerelease.

$99 was for a student developer. You got one lifetime hardware credit with that membership type.

And, of course, had to be a student. (You had to send in a copy of your ID, IIRC.)

Had to fax (or email, although, iirc, they stressed that they preferred fax, when I called up about it) a copy of your Student ID + schedule in.