I was at Ramstein for a while in the mid 90s. Looking back it seems like we were pretty well equipped, had multiple labs with Windows 3.1/95 computers, DOS computers, a couple random Macs. I got a look at the network room behind one of the computer rooms one time, that was my first up-close look at rack-mounted stuff. They were using a Sun Microsystems server to host the school website and peoples' midterm projects from the HTML programming class.

A few years before that, before the internet took off, I was at another base in Germany and there was one computer room full of old NCR computers from the mid-80s and the other computer room was basically just the row of Apple IIgs computers in the library. Most of the classrooms had a Zenith 248 computer in them which I think was just a basic hand-me-down from Uncle Sam. Those things chirped every time you pressed a key on the keyboard.

> A thirty second conversation can replace an email back-and-forth that goes on for hours or even days," Dell writes.

He then proceeds to not elaborate why that thirty second conversation needs to be in person and not just over the phone, or how he intends for that thirty second conversation to not be a fifteen minute digression about the weather or sports or what we did last weekend on company time.

The saying is "this meeting should have been an email" - nobody with actual work to do ever says "this email should have been a meeting".