For me, it was having to write assignments for University back in 1994. I couldnt afford a good printer so I'd write my work at home and take them on floppy to be printed. The print server couldnt read Amiga disks and my Amiga had no word processing software so it was a cheap used 386 with Word on Win3.1 for me.
Interestingly, that machine felt much faster (25Mhz) than my A500, it was a fairly painless upgrade, I kept the A500 for games and the PC for work, they were apretty good team.