[Chode]

that still amazes me to this day, learned to program on DEC stuff

[dhs12345]

A lot of people did. Apparently, Paul Allen and Bill Gates used PDPs early on. Apparently they developed COBOL and BASIC using DEC computers.

You might like the below links.

http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Computer_Museum