And when I took the operating systems lab class, we had block time access to a PDP-11 with half that amount of total memory and a keypad for entering the bootloader -- a big step up from toggle switches. One of the reasons old grey-beards like me can find a happy home doing embedded software is that we don't get that deer-in-headlights reaction to memory counted in KBytes and single-digit MBytes.

Oh... almost forgot... get off my lawn...