First personal computer nostalgia

Approximately: 1972 - Was allowed to use a PDP-8/E while waiting for my Mom to take me home from school (phone company). Started writing a very long FOCAL program while reading the book. 1973 - Discovered that my new high school has a computer room consisting of two ASR-33's with modems that can dial into a Univac system running BASIC. 1976 - Make "real" money writing a COBOL program for the teachers union on UNLV's CDC mainframe. 1976 - Desperately want an Altair but setting for building the ELF out of Popular Electronics for $99. 1977 - Make more money and live away from home at IBM's "summer intern" program. Get to play with a 370 and learn BAL. 1977 - Finally save up enough money to buy a four board system from the Digital Group (no chassis though, it runs on a board) Have to send the CPU board to them to get it working. :-( 1979 - In college I spring for a Quest Super-ELF and discover that there is some field around me the forces one of my computers to always be broken. Also in college I become a systems programmer for an engineering lab and get to hack on PDP-11's (RSC), DEC-10's (TENEX, TOPS-20, TOPS-10, ITS) and a VAXen (11/730 free gift from DEC :-) 1983 - Graduate from college and work for Intel. Convince my wife if I just had a decent system I would be happy. Splurge on a use Cromemco System III 1984 - Get the Amiga bug and spend many years enjoying some really nice software. 1986 - Join Sun Microsystems and start hacking UNIX full time. 1998 - Am given a PDP-8 (think "Gee, its not hard to store 1 old computer.") 1999 - Get a couple of MicroVAX II's and go to my first VCF. Uh-oh, this is serious. Present - surrounded by old computers I find now that I have to be very selective in what I get. Enjoy hacking UNIX on VAXen, still trying to get a decent RSX-11M setup on an 11.