Started in computers in the late 80s and our first work laptop was a Compaq about the size of a small suitcase that weighed as much as one filled with bricks. We used it to telnet into our network equipment.
We had computers that booted up with floppies and ecstatic when they cam out with 10 MB hard drives. Then you could create a memory partition on it and put the boot files on the HD and you were screaming.
I still remember installing Windows on computers using a stack of 30 floppies only to have the install crap out at the end.
Sounds like fun times, lol.