My company sent me to Boca Raton in 1983 to learn how to use the PC. It was a week long class with hands on experience configuring PCs and BAT file programming

My company sent me to Boca Raton in 1983 to learn how to use the PC. It was a week long class with hands on experience configuring PCs and BAT file programming using "EDLIN". I had PC serial #7 in the class and serial #1 was at the front of the classroom. The instructors were very excited that they could use BAT files and were bragging that the whole class roster was entered and managed on the PC using only the tools that came with PC-DOS. The course set me on the path of systems and programming and kept me fat and happy for the next 35 years.