It must have been sometime in the early 80's and I was out of work, looking for a job.
After a couple of phone contacts with prospective employers who asked me computer related questions,
I realized I was what was known as a "computer illiterate".
This realization motivated me to invest in a small Mac (don't recall the model) and then each morning
I got out the manual, poured a cup of coffee, and proceeded to teach myself the basics.
I treated it like I was going to work!
Then as luck would have it, I get hired by a firm that was just considering going to computers,
and to my surprise, even with my rudimentary knowledge I was in a fairly short time the department computer guru!
Go figure, what a change in a matter of months!