We had a HP 9000/735 server in the lab with 715-33s as clients at my university for us students (vast overkill: CAD work stations for undergrads doing mostly te

We had a HP 9000/735 server in the lab with 715-33s as clients at my university for us students (vast overkill: CAD work stations for undergrads doing mostly text processing and compiling Scheme/C/LaTeX files). I remember with affection the refurbished HP 9000/715-75 that I purchased from my side job developing C software while studying. It ran HP-UX 9.03 (eventually 11) and never ever crashed in six years of daily use. Perhaps this was the best material purchase ever, perhaps followed closely by my beautifully bound, 32-volume copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Back then Hewlett-Packard still stood for top-notch engineering, and I could only laugh at fellow undergraduates with their hacky non-preeemptive Windows boxes with tiny CRTs who had their chassis open and cables hanging out, because something always needed fixing. Years later, I purchased a HP 9000/715-100XC for spare parts, just in case.