Quoted from G-P-E:

You could afford floppy's for them?!?!
I still have my CTR-80 for loading programs onto my old TRS-80 Model 1 from Cassette.
I got interested in electronics when I saw an article in the high school library -- "Build the Cosmac Elf computer" in a 1976 Popular Electronics magazine. Back then you could buy tons of miscellaneous parts from "Poly Paks" grab bags at dirt cheap prices, I think they pretty much sold factory floor sweepings. Some little operation known as "Digikey" also ads in the back for cheap parts as well. Then there was James Electronics - bit of a name change since then. Yes, this belongs in the "you know you're old thread".

Quoted from flynnibus:

We called mechanical engineering “pre business”... because it was the discipline most engineers switched to before they dropped out of the engineering school entirely and switched to business majors

Quoted from yaksplat:

Industrial was the last stop before dropping out of engineering. Anyone that started out in industrial was immediately doomed to business.