[afitnerd]

One of my first paid jobs was in the summer of my college freshman year, 1988, I did some consulting work for an insurance salesman. He had an ibm 8086 based machine and it was taking 15 hours to run an insurance estimate.

I got him an 8087 math coprocessor and it reduced the time to about 10 minutes. I think it cost around $500 at the time.

I made my first $50 in tech, an his business was demonstrably improved. What a thrill!