One of my first assignments at the consulting firm I joined in the mid-80’s was to choose a *nix system. After looking at Apollo, Sun and some other options, we went with SGI, I think it was an ok decision, not least because software distributions came on CD-ROM and were relatively painless.
One of our clients went with HP-UX. I remember going into their office and seeing the sysadmins desk piled high with stacks of floppy discs. That guy had some kind of breakdown as I recall.
