Same here at one time
I was given God privliedges on a Vax system one weekend (something to do with classification of data)
Only crashed it once, when I was scrubbing the memory.
I agree on VMS, really easy to work with
In the same place we used DEC equipment, the mainframe computer was a Univac 1110, filled a HS gym sized room
Drum memory, lots of 7 and 9 track tape drives, etc. Had a row of hard disks, 13 platter hard drive packs that stored a few megs and crashed, a LOT.
Ran on FORTRAN and all the terminals were dumb
Installed a front end comm computer that I swear who's only purpose was to say "Host down, site terminated" when the mainframe crashed
Those were the days
BTW, nowhere in my CV is there any reference to programming skills
Nothing good can come of adding that ....
Wonder how many kids today would even know what JCL stood for?
I worked in the UT computing center at the spam can for my grad degree.