When I started in computing, I had to read boxes full these
into one of these
No-one believed a computer could be built that would fit on a desktop. Well, except for a few hardcore science-fiction readers and geeks...
My first CS class required us to write a program on cards, just so we knew how it used to be done. I never went to the “no food or drink” Lab to wait my turn at a terminal for subsequent excersises. I went home, cracked a beer, lit a cig, and dialed into the Lab with my TRS-80 CoCo and 300 baud modem to do my lab work.
Tele-Computng was great back then. Still is. Now I do it with an iPad sitting on the couch. :-))