Brown University's CS department had an entire auditorium full of Apollo workstations when I was a freshman in the early 1980's. The intro programming course (C

Brown University's CS department had an entire auditorium full of Apollo workstations when I was a freshman in the early 1980's. The intro programming course (CS11) was taught by Andy van Dam, who might (or might not) be the namesake of the boy in Pixar's Toy Story. It wasn't a difficult decision to choose computer science as my concentration.