Amazing what could be done!
In 1986 I was working in famine relief for Save The Children in western Sudan. The massive aid operation was run on a handful of Amstrad 8256s and 8512s. We did all the accounts, word processing and survey data bashing using them, with a crack team of local people alongside the expats. They were wonderful. One little-known huge advantage of them over more sophisticated kit was how tolerant they were of the extremely dodgy and variable mains electricity we had to run them on.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
