One of my first paid jobs was in the summer of my college freshman year, 1988, I did some consulting work for an insurance salesman. He had an ibm 8086 based ma

One of my first paid jobs was in the summer of my college freshman year, 1988, I did some consulting work for an insurance salesman. He had an ibm 8086 based machine and it was taking 15 hours to run an insurance estimate. I got him an 8087 math coprocessor and it reduced the time to about 10 minutes. I think it cost around $500 at the time. I made my first $50 in tech, an his business was demonstrably improved. What a thrill!