Uhm, that's *quite* a long time. Makes me remember of Z80's and CPM and the Amstrad/Schneider boxen, then the Commodores.
Work related ... lab, began with one of the first programmable (basic, *LOL*) "integrators" and turned it - with 10k of CORE memory - into a thing that could fetch peak signals from a measuring device in periodic intervals after telling it the first two times by keypress, doing standard/calibration measuremants with linear or quadratic regression, sample measurments with periodic recalibration standards, mean/standard deviation printout and so on.
Then there were mass spectrometers with 68000 series processors ("pascal workstations") and later (68020s) hp-ux, long before they changed over to Microsoft (ouch, I still remember the pain of n0tworking with win 3.0 and dos n0twork drivers).
That's also the time of coax n0twork cables running around everywhere
Well, there also was a xenix (on a 80286) system, soon substituted by a aix rs/6000 running a "laboratory data system" with (see) WYSE60 terminals attached via fiber/serial couplers and a multiport serial adapter. Did the maintainence and some (informix db) forms development when the original supporting company gave up, it ran until around 2002 but with terminal emulators on networked PCs, and I set up a samba domain server, latest was 2.27 with XP clients already there.
And finally ... not even retired yet
an old school computer guy
