
Also learned UNIX on NeXTs
My first "real" job was as a university sysadmin, it was in a Physics department, and the computers were NeXTStations, with a couple of cubes, and a couple of OPENSTEP PCs (and then a massive Solaris server because NeXT had already disappeared by then). My first "real" mistake was getting the arguments to tar the wrong way around, and writing an empty hard disk to our master image tape instead of writing the master image to an empty hard disk. Luckily, there was a backup of the tape…