Interesting - my PDP-11 job involved using the computer for real time control of developmental psychology experiments. One of the two professors I was working for at the time bought an Apple II and had me come to his home to play around with it. That was my first introduction to an Apple computer. I continued to work with CDC and Cray mainframes, as well as Vax and Alpha computers produced by DEC. DEC was a great software/hardware company, plagued by lousy marketing - which is why the Alpha failed (great RISC chip ahead of its time). I spent the last ten or so years of my career (University of Texas) as a Windows Server admin, mostly working with server hardware and networking, NT, and its derivatives. All the while, I nearly always had some sort of Mac in my office for personal use. Nice thing about working at a large university is the wide diversity of hardware and operating systems to which you are exposed.
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