My undergrad student computing at GA Tech was on a Cyber mainframe. FORTRAN on punch cards for the intro to computing class, later a PASCAL elective on time shared terminals.
Tech had an IBM PC student discount plan when I was a senior (IBM had a huge footprint in Atlanta then), and I bought one. Financed it like a car, which you could have bought a decent used car for what I spent.
So my grad school computing was on an early IBM-PC, used it a lot. I remember using interpreted BASIC to do some hairy numerical method solutions to nasty diff-eqs. The stuff would take hours to converge to a solution, but who cared? I’d get it set up and let it run overnight, have a solution when I woke up. It beat the heck out of having to drive down to the computer center to work on the Cyber, which could do it fast, but not conveniently!
Ironically, I know a lot of people in Blacksburg Va who got their Masters from Ga Tech online. It’s a really good program.