Unrelated: I still get an unreasonable bit of joy whenever I see a picture of the manuals for Turbo Pascal and Turbo C.
(Which you can read online if you're so inclined: https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandturReferenceGuide1988_19310204)
I think part of the reason I get that feeling was because these things were so expensive. But they contained so much power.
But then again I would still get that feeling looking at a GCC manual.
I'm probably weird.
@zigg Let us sit on the ground and tell great stories of weirdness. ;)