in the 80ties i went to a high-school with technical background (electronics) and we had one and later two VAX 11/730 there (the cheaper/slower CMOS variant of the i think TTL-based VAX 11/780; connected via DECnet) using VMS version 4.something if i remember it correctly.
bought me an atari st in the mid 80ties ...
later at the university i was able to use various systems with different falvors of unix.
in the early 90ties - while working for an university-institute -, i had a spare server system - an ibm ps/2 model 8x (486er dx 33 MHz; 16 MB of RAM; 2 SCSI disks with a total of 1,5 GB) and i wanted to reuse it as a webserver ... with linux.
because of the PS/2 system i didn't manage to install linux at first try, but later i used a newer standard PC for this purpose ... at first "esprit linux" with a development kernel 1.1.1xx / later slackware 2.x with kernel 1.2.3 ... this was during 1994 :)
in 1995 i bought myself PC hardware to run linux at home - a self-assembled AMD 486/DX4 system with 16 MB of RAM and a SCSI 1 GB disc.
never looked back - i'm using linux since then for nearly all systems and also seriously on my desktop since 1996, the moment netscape navigator 4.0 for linux came out.
bought me an atari st in the mid 80ties ...
later at the university i was able to use various systems with different falvors of unix.
in the early 90ties - while working for an university-institute -, i had a spare server system - an ibm ps/2 model 8x (486er dx 33 MHz; 16 MB of RAM; 2 SCSI disks with a total of 1,5 GB) and i wanted to reuse it as a webserver ... with linux.
because of the PS/2 system i didn't manage to install linux at first try, but later i used a newer standard PC for this purpose ... at first "esprit linux" with a development kernel 1.1.1xx / later slackware 2.x with kernel 1.2.3 ... this was during 1994 :)
in 1995 i bought myself PC hardware to run linux at home - a self-assembled AMD 486/DX4 system with 16 MB of RAM and a SCSI 1 GB disc.
never looked back - i'm using linux since then for nearly all systems and also seriously on my desktop since 1996, the moment netscape navigator 4.0 for linux came out.