Well then, as one ancient fart to another, which was your favorite computer? I cut my teeth on the IBM 1130, then the 360. Soon I developed a love for the PDP-11 and then the 68000. I am still kicking myself in the butt for throwing out my Multibus 68000 computer.
I just acquired some gunsmith books and some machining texts that are not available online. They are wonderful, far better than any similar material I have found online. Online material seems to be lacking in detail and not very eloquently written. The older farts wrote better than people of today.
FSU had a ‘mainframe’ in 1965 that we did ‘programming’ on but I really cut my teeth on a IBM 360 with punchcards, especially when I had to get a bunch of programs running on the ‘compatible’ Amdahl 360 that UofF upgraded to.
A PDP-11 was a workhorse for our field work. My favorite computer now? A Denon 4300.