Re: College students...
When I was at Uni, we had diskless Sun SLCs as our workstations. There were two SLCs which had massive 1GB HDDs to serve the other SLCs in the room. Unfortunately, it was very easy (by accident) to knock out the ethernet cable from the SLC with the HDD and bring the room to a standstill. (And I'm ignoring the joys of 10Base-2!)