I was a CS major around the time these were new, and we got a dozen of them for our computer lab. At the time we had a huge computer lab full of PCs (386's or

I was a CS major around the time these were new, and we got a dozen of them for our computer lab. At the time we had a huge computer lab full of PCs (386's or 486's I think) and a darkened back room with a dozen SparcStations. At the time, I didn't know anything about Sparc or even Unix, but I did know that the English majors descended on our computer lab first thing every morning and took every available PC. However, the SparcStations in the back room were almost always available. I ended up learning, out of necessity, how to do my assignments on them, since computers were then still too expensive for me to be able to afford one of my own. Well, around that same time, a new research project called the World Wide Web was taking off, and they hooked all of the Sun workstations to it. I lucked into discovering "the internet" in the early 90's because all of the PCs were already taken.