ah the memories ... I used to heat Jenny's bedroom w/ an old hobby 11/40 in '84, I really started on a dg nova writing a fortran compiler via paper tape for chem dept. Paid freshman year don't think the compiler ever worked but it took an hour to load ...
Maybe we all have something in common here. I have been in computers since 1984. Retail stores built our own computers MicroTech Computer Systems. Novel, Microsoft engineer etc...