I remember we had an "underdesk" VAX running some proprietary software for scanning and cataloging drill samples in a metallurgy office in an open pit mine in M

I remember we had an "underdesk" VAX running some proprietary software for scanning and cataloging drill samples in a metallurgy office in an open pit mine in Montana back in the 90s. The thing just worked. Power regularly went off due to shovels being moved (power was cut at the substation to move shovels). Ground was constantly shaking due to blasting in the pit. Extremely dusty environment. The only time that I ever had to work on it was when the vendor sent out a new harddrive (detected some anomalies over a dial up connection). Just beautifully functioning hardware and software.