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Originally Posted by kacir
How you DARE!
Monitor!
WHEELS!?!?!? 
It is a *terminal*. A legendary VT420 from Digital Equipment Corporation, no less!
Digital Equipment Corporation was manufacturer of computers such as PDP or VAX, see Accomplishments.
And it is sitting on a MicroVAX 3300!
At 1988 this was THE computer to dream about. The fanciest machine you could ever dream about. This particular "little" machine has been singlehandedly controlling the operation in a steel factory for more than 10 years as a main control computer.
And please notice the logarithnic ruler (in English called properly the slide rule) cassualy sitting on the top. I can still use that analog computer.
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Originally Posted by Justy
I remember my whole college was running on a VAX back in 1988/1989. It was definitely big a step up from the 8088s I'd been using in High School computer class!
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This is going to date me, but my first job was on a PDP-11, programming in BASIC Plus, if I recall correctly. A program couldn't be larger than 16K. This is where I acquired a minimalistic code technique that served me well in all future jobs.
WDE.
*note* I learned to program on punched cards too.