Back when I went to school (mid-90s), our computer lab was a bunch of orange-screen vt220s connected to a Vax cluster. We didn't have fancy NCSA Mosaic like UT

Back when I went to school (mid-90s), our computer lab was a bunch of orange-screen vt220s connected to a Vax cluster. We didn't have fancy NCSA Mosaic like UT, we had Lynx and gopher. We learned C on a VAX with a broken scanf. Students dropped CS because they couldn't figure out EVE and EDT (visual editors). Our internet connection came through a narrow tenuous pipe from UT Austin. When it went down, I'd do a traceroute and then give "Mordac" over there at UT a hard time. Oh yeah, there was a PC lab. Running Windows 3.1. That was a place to type your paper. You couldn't do real CS there. And I had to bike uphill to class both ways in the Texas heat. :) I think if you can take busted up hand-me-downs and backwards old crap, make it work & explain how to others, and learn how to sidestep a lazy/stubborn/indifferent IT (build your own stuff in ~/local, etc.), you can adapt and do fine anywhere.