Remembering 36-bit DECs

Know your computing past. It will help you appreciate current technology much, much more. Slashdot readers -- at least those old enough to remember the 1980s -- share memories of old DEC computers. This trip down memory lane was triggered by coverage of an "nontechnical reminiscence written in 1988" that was penned on the occasion of Columbia University unplugging its last DECSYSTEM-20.