It was not staggeringly expensive. Google says 6-7k and I vaguely recall a trustee ponying up 15k so that the (private) school had a computer. Time sharing se

It was not staggeringly expensive. Google says 6-7k and I vaguely recall a trustee ponying up 15k so that the (private) school had a computer. Time sharing services were probably a manageable expense. While not cheap it’s way less than “real” computers and tended to be open for the hackers not the staff.