When I was a freshperson, the personal computer was expensive and the performance was low (from the current viewpoint.)

In that time, an administrator of the server machine was a longing job.

At the time, there was no concept of "PC server". The computer was called "Workstation". Many of the researchers were working from terminals of "Workstation" (which was called "X terminal" etc).

So, managing the server machine was a symbol of special efficient engineer among computer engineers, and it was no exaggeration to say that that was one of the status symbols.

I managed to become an administrator of the server somehow, and I did my best for being the administrator.

I was running around securing the budget, improving the skills to use tools, and understanding the concept of network,

If necessary, I programmed the tool myself (for example, I made a sort of "pod chat" on e-mail system).

Moreover, there was no concept of security at the time, so the workstations in my office are not only directly connected to the external net, but also could be accessed by outside persons. The super pastoral world was realized without problems.

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In front of me, there is a PC server that has 44 core CPU, hundreds of gigabytes of memory, terabytes of disk space, however,

no freshperson wants to manage the server by themselves.

(To be continued)