By 1983, computing resources were available to all students at any decent college (usually mainframes or minis with terminals), and even many high schools (usually the Apple II). Xerox copies cost IIRC five cents at the library.
It's being suppressed just as Hillary's was.
Access to mainframes was severely restricted and you'd find your fingers smacked really hard if caught putting term papers on accessible memorythat cost lots of money, to say nothing of running it through the CPU.
Even folks in government offices didn't have all that much access to PCs at the time.