First programming course I took in college was Fortran. IIRC, it was a Univac. Bigger than me and used punch cards. It cost the college $1.5 million. And at that approximate time, Radio Shack came out with their TRS 80 for ~$300 that did pretty much everything ours did, and Radio Shack sold their for ~$300.
BTW, the above pictures? They were called "bugs" because literally bugs would fly into the computers and short them out. (IIRC)
