Age

Okay, why not... Born in 1968, currently 36. First regular interaction was with an Apple ][ in about 1980-81, and some time on ASR33's talking to an unknown DEC BASIC timesharing system run by the Philadelphia public school system. Got an Apple //e in highschool. College brought a VAX-11/750 running VMS4.4 in late 1986; and Macs, Zenith IBM-clones, DEC Rainbows, and when I was allowed to visit the Inner Circle assorted S-100 gear. For one project I did a paper design (circuit and ucode) around the 74181 ALU, maybe someday I'll dust it off and actually build it. Didn't finish my degree before I got a job at MIT, as part of DECs ESL agreement - "hire a couple people, stop calling our support staff all the time, and we'll give you huge discounts." So it was mostly VMS and Unix support, noodling around on everything from MVIIs to 8800s. But I also wound up with a Sun-3/60 on my desk for duping tapes under their license program, and answered a lot of questions about them too. Every now and then I got a treat and someone would call me to look at a problem with their SGI gear... Lots of things since, but this is getting long. Not much discipline to the collection. DEC stuff (pdp-11, vax, alpha), Moto m88k, Nat Semi 32k, CompuPro S-100, and a couple Apple 8 bitters. --Steve.