Those were entrepreneurs, not regular engineers. My aunt's career as an IT engineer started in the 80s. She went into this field because it was a new niche to

Those were entrepreneurs, not regular engineers. My aunt's career as an IT engineer started in the 80s. She went into this field because it was a new niche to explore and hardly anyone knew their way around it. Her role was to take part in digitalisation of the bank she was working in and by "digitalisation" I mean first putting the equipment together.