Not entirely on topic, but I do remember going to college which was the first exposure to this large rooms with computers. I had computers at home since the ear

Not entirely on topic, but I do remember going to college which was the first exposure to this large rooms with computers. I had computers at home since the early 80s but by the time I got into college it was win3.11 time, after my MSX-2, Amiga, DOS but even C64, I really really hated Windows for it's instability and inefficiency. In college we had 2 (large) rooms with computers; 1 had Windows boxes with win3.11 (for networks) and later win NT and the other had Sun sparcstations. The Windows room was always full and the unix room always empty. So I sat in the Unix room behind these machines that never crashed and had access to not only all the others in the room for doing interesting distributed things, but also to the 2 E450's in the basement of the college. While the Windows machines were on another network and were just basically crashing all day long (got a lot better with win NT obviously but still wasn't great). I later learned that the school head sys admin seriously hated Windows and loved Unix. So he basically ignored everything happening in the Windows world and just switched off the entire room at night while the Unix machines had uptimes that felt impossible if you compare them. Ofcourse, as the PC won, the room with the Sun machines was replaced with Windows machines; I got 10 SparcStation 5's (with the gigantic CRTs), a few SparcStation 1's, few UltraSparcs (5+10) and an E450 after they removed all. All are still working without fault to this day. It is depressing how throw-away modern hardware is, but what can you do.