Sure, but you needed several thousand dollars ($10k?) own a NeXT box or by a stroke of luck your college or university might have such a machine. I'm sure ther

Sure, but you needed several thousand dollars ($10k?) own a NeXT box or by a stroke of luck your college or university might have such a machine. I'm sure there are many other great things that existed to do the same thing but VB was the tool that brought this type of capability to the masses on plain old PC hardware.