“...no computer at the time was odd...”
Didn’t the first “PCs” come out around ‘82 - ‘83? Weren’t they “Macs” or “Apples?”
I remember my Maintenance Officer in our Transportation Unit at MCAS, Cherry Point, NC had one... it was “the rave” at the time, even with the “dot matrix” type printer.
I don’t know when the very first ones came out, but we got our first one maybe in 1987 and we were one of a small handful of people I knew with them. Not that NO one had them, but they didn’t seem very common. I did have one friend with a Mac, I think. She had something that looked like Windows and I was doing DOS. LOL I recall I didnt’ want to change to Windows when we upgraded. Hard to believe now.
My first computer (about 1982 or 83) was a Commodore 64.