[OCC]

My box of cards went flying into the slush. I spent the next couple hours in the lab bathroom under the hand dryers. It felt like the end of the world.

Lucky for me, the next semester (1984), we had access to Apple II's with cool 5 1/4 floppy disks!

[PA Engineer]

Lucky for me, the next semester (1984), we had access to Apple II's with cool 5 1/4 floppy disks!

I actually know what you mean. I went back to college on "Sabbatical" between my work in Saudi and Mexico to immerse in Spanish and study F77 simulation programming. I got to sit at home with my 64K Mac, telecommute with my blazing fast 300 baud modem. I could drink coffee, smoke cigars, watch TV, vacuum, and run the blender while programming. Computing had definitely turned the corner at that time.