There was such a fear and fetish back then relating to computing. If you got some sort of computer you needed stacks of third party books and training classes.

There was such a fear and fetish back then relating to computing. If you got some sort of computer you needed stacks of third party books and training classes. Lots of memes (often spread on paper!) about how hard it is. I talked to the CTO of Palo Alto back around 2000 about why they bought exchange (including a huge computer to run it) rather than Netscape’s system, a local product that wouldn’t have needed the huge computer. “The icons look different so the training program would have cost more than the whole exchange buy”.