In October 1992 I was mostly programming in Fortran on a Dec VAX, writing scientific simulation and design software for electronic and optical components. About this time we bought some large CRT monitors, partly so that we could remotely read system documentation off CD's rather than a 1/4 mile round trip to look something up in the paper manuals in the IT office. We also spent > £20k on a PC with 20M memory for doing stand-alone modelling (not allowed to be connected to anything else).