[robert-brown]

When I was about ten, Chi Corp., which was associated with Case Western, had an open house. I keypunched my name on a card and fed it to a Univac 1108, which output a large image of my name on a line printer. I think an image of Snoopy was also output. I was hooked.

In middle school wrote Basic code on an HP-2000E. High school summer job writing C code on a PDP-11/70? running Version 6 or 7 Unix. Later, spent a summer at Bell Labs. Bjarne was working down the hall on C with objects. Rob Pike demoed a wire-wrapped Blit prototype. I wrote an assembler for an Ikonas frame buffer in Turner Whitted's graphics group for a C compiler port.