I started college in EE at UT Austin in 1978. The rent on my two-bedroom apartment was $180/month. My textbooks cost about $300/semester. My tuition was somethi

I started college in EE at UT Austin in 1978. The rent on my two-bedroom apartment was $180/month. My textbooks cost about $300/semester. My tuition was something like $10/credit hour/semester. I don't remember the exact number because even on my very limited budget, it was in the noise. I stayed in Austin for grad school. Pre-turtleneck Steve Jobs came to campus in 1984 and gave a talk about how great his new computer was, and told us he'd let us all buy one for half price. I bought one of those "Macintosh" things, plus a Lisa to develop for it, and the rest for me was history. Interesting tidbit: Because Macs were cheap for students in Austin, a lot of great Mac developer talent sprang up there. Jeff Kodosky prototyped a really cool visual programming language on the first Mac, then hired several UT students to productize it into a commercial engineering tool. He called it LabView. https://www.ni.com/en-us/about-ni/leadership/kodosky.html https://www.ni.com/en-us/about-ni/leadership/kodosky.html