Nostalgia :)
Used to write COBOL programs using a terminal that was connected to a mainframe far away! Slow and clunky.
Saw my first PC on a Novell Network in 1987 - in college. QuickBasic was my favorite those days - could do tons of stuff - light up any pixel on the monitor (CGA?) - learn to program the dot-matrix-printer to print Indian language characters - Oh, it was fun!
Yup, Borland products was the in-thing then.
I used to devour PC-Magazine with the reviews and new products.
What has changed? Tons of stuff - Frameworks, Virtualization - many, many layers above!