My first computer was an IBM S/370 located in Research Triangle Park, and a Burroughs 6800 and a Vax/PDP 11 in the university computer room .... 1978. It wasn't until 17 years later that I bought a "toy PC" ..... The big blue boxes ran about $10 million each back then..... and being a total systems geek, I had keys and total access too....
.....and normal people left me alone