I don't recall the exact age. Dad brought home a VT100 and an acoustic coupler (actually, it might first have been a 52). Sometime after, he created a separat

I don't recall the exact age. Dad brought home a VT100 and an acoustic coupler (actually, it might first have been a 52). Sometime after, he created a separate account for me on his employer's PDP -- or had they upgraded to the VAX by then? Props to the employer for (sort of silently) permitting this. Separately: Email, shemail. Via TALK, I was IM-ing before most people knew what email was. ;-) Also, turning in school papers processed through runoff greatly impressed some teachers -- deservedly or not. Finally: I still miss the DEC manuals and the like. Back when documentation was DOCUMENTATION.