Just as I were entering University (1991) for a Comp Sci degree they were decommissioning Prime Minicomputers and Digital VAX equipment...
flash8,
You make me feel old - I remember the introduction of the VAX - friends of mine had lapel buttons saying "I've been VAXinated".
The first computer I used at university was an English Electric KDF-9, maxxed out with 32K of ferrite-core memory. This was the mainframe for the whole university!