@#7 ... Lamplighter, are you an old mainframer? ...
Back in the late 70's, commercially, mainframes were The Thing. So, yeah, in that respect, yes.
Though I had a microcomputer in the basement, a hand-assembled micro. With a S-100 bus and an Intel 8080 CPU. That CPU ran at a blazing 2MHz, and I had a whopping 64MB of memory to work in.
I also was one of the early adopters who lead my corporation (a major corporation) into the PC world, away from those rusty ole mainframes.
The stories i could tell ...
But for starters,
64MB of memory cost, let's say, $20,000 per megabyte in the 1970's...
Memory Prices 1957+
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... and don't even ask me about the cost of hard drives back ten...