Old fart here... when I got into computers it was with Commodore PETs at school. Hard disk? Ha. We shared a single CBM 8050 among a roomful of computers. It

Old fart here... when I got into computers it was with Commodore PETs at school. Hard disk? Ha. We shared a single CBM 8050 among a roomful of computers. It could be hotplugged, no biggie, if you needed to save your program you got a turn on the disk drive, put your personal floppy in... What was considered cheap in those days was printer paper. No problem at all to print out your entire program for going through and editing - with a pencil! - on the long school bus ride. Sounds awful now, but it wasn't, it was just different. Besides, at 40x25 character screen resolution, you couldn't keep that much code "in view" anyway.