It is hard to think about the Apple II plus, and the headaches that we had trying to make the transition from using calculators and typewriters to computers.  Ha ha.. in research, there was never an option not to go with the flow, but that didn’t make it easy.  It wasn’t but 8 years earlier than this acknowledgement (from 1986) written for a paper I published in Experimental Lung Research, with colleagues, that I typed my thesis using 6 pieces of carbon paper, a manual typewriter, and lots of erasers.