I remember those days. I was a freshman back in 1987 and shelled out 2000 dollars to buy one 1 MB Ram Mac SE which had no hard drive. Because I was told, it would be good for my future. It had 2 disk slots where you run the system on one disk and your programs on the other. You really could not do much. It had no memory protection so you ran something intensive, the thing would reboot itself. During algorithms class where the professor told us to implement Dijkstra's algorithm using a version of lisp, it would take about a hour to find the shortest path from about 30 points. Perhaps it was a problem with the interpreted version of lisp we were using but the time it took to process that info was just a joke. In robotics class, we used a pc with windows 2.0 or 3.0(I cant remember now) since we had easy access to serial ports that controlled a simple mechanism. In Mac it was too difficult to figure out. We basically used it to write papers in MacWrite and then head off to the printing center to print those papers early in the morning before turning the papers in. Oh the sound from those dot matrix mac printers early in the morning was just aweful. I still remember when I spend the whole night to write a paper and that thing reboot itself because the pages were too many and the memory was almost full. And I had forgotten to save it once and I lost everything. A classmate of mine had the same problem. But instead of cursing, he just threw it out of the window. Literally. When tuition back in those days was about 6-7000 dollars per years, the price tag was too much.. Drexel's tuition went up every year and could barely afford it. When I passed my last class, I still owed them 1500 dollars. I just sold that price of "super" technology to get my degree. Sometimes when I think about it, there must have been a lot of kickbacks between apple and administration since there was so much propaganda to convince everyone that we "needed" a mac.