In 1983, Personal Computers were quite the up and coming thing. You could buy your own for a few thousand dollars. Though they were mostly considered toys by many East Coast programmers (more expensive "workstations" were the rage), there had already been some interesting and promising applications developed for it.I thought (along with a lot of other people) that these were definitely the thing of the future. I was considering a new job, so I decided to take a bit of a risk, and look for work w...