You could not imagine a more exciting place to be in 01978? How about Xerox PARC, Microsoft, Apple, the MIT AI Lab, Symbolics, LMI, SRI-NIC, Tymshare, Intel, Mostek, Zilog, Control Data Corporation, Cray, Commodore, HP, Texas Instruments, Tandem, DEC, Data General, Linear Technology, Signetics, or CompuServe? You could spend your time inventing things that changed the world for the better, instead of in pointless political maneuvering within IBM to ship products everybody hated.

What are the nearest equivalents today?