Got this from my father Saturday:

At 42y I had just decided that, as a mechanical engineer, that if I didn't learn

more about computers and automation I would be dead-ended in my career.

So I started a self education investigation of microcomputers that only

recently (28sep2016) turned me loose.

That was 1983. In March 1985 I had 9 IBM PCs networked with an 8088

Server running two Burnoulli drives (8 in. 10MB floppy drives) connected to

an HP Laserjet printer. The "workstations" were 2 floppy disk green screen

beasts running Word for DOS v2.0 on IBM PC DOS v3.1 with the IBM PC

Network (NetBIOS) using Sytec broadband head-end and client cards. That

year my group published about 5 linear feet of Laboratory environmental

documentation. Unprecedented output.