Great thread. Love DEC/VAX history. But as soon as I saw a pic of Robert Palmer with his hair product and 2k suits in 1990, I knew then end was near. I mean yeah Ellison at Oracle was similar at the time, but this was DEC!, not just a database engine.

I bought a rack-mount Alpha back in the early 90's running Symbolics on it. Probably all I need to say about that.