My father worked at a local branch of a railway company in his entire professional career. For a bureaucratic institution, it adopted new technology surprisingly fast. Or, more precisely, it was fast at buying the machines. I remember those unofficial “take your child to work” days in the 1990s. Windows 3.1 was already out, so I could open Paintbrush, draw the nine (now eight) planets of our solar system, and print them on a dot-matrix …