Way back in the day (late 70's) I worked on VAX systems for a large automaker whose management sincerely believed if you weren't using some monster from IBM you

Way back in the day (late 70's) I worked on VAX systems for a large automaker whose management sincerely believed if you weren't using some monster from IBM you really weren't doing much important and thus there was never enough funding to go around to make sure everyone in the VAX group had a terminal on their desk. In my group there was some real status of having your own VT-100 on your desk and I still have the b/w photo of me at my desk the day I got mine.