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> And Apple agreed on the $1,000 price tag for a model that sold to the public for $2,495.

Talk about a savvy deal. And a year before the Mac was released to the public!

Even outside of this deal, the educational discount on Macs in this era was insane. Somewhere in the range of 40-50% off.

I think about 1988 I paid $1200 (with a student loan) for my student-discount Mac Plus when they were going for at least $2000 otherwise.

Smartest purchase I made.

Same here. Made the money working for my home builder dad in the summer. I still have it - need to check if it still runs.

Inflation adjusted that's $3,089.26 and $7,568.70 respectively

The modern Apple Vision Pro falls right in between

Quite honestly, though the Apple II would've been better for students!