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

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.