At the 1984 Macintosh introduction at the Boston Computer Society, an audience member asks about a $1,000 student price for schools outside Apple’s university consortium. Steve Jobs jokes, “No, because we’d go broke,” then talks about finding “creative solutions” since most students cannot afford a $2,500 computer. Today, education pricing feels normal. Hearing this question asked directly to Jobs is a reminder of how public and conversational this moment in tech history could be. Did questions