
"What are you doing this weekend?" John asked, and thus began my many years of fun weekends and summer weeks at Lincoln Labs TX2 facilities.
I doubt if anybody in high school or later in college knew I was playing on DARPAnet (that's what the internet was called in the early days), emailing researchers at Carnegie-Mellon, RPI, Brown, MIT, Berkeley, Los Alamos, Stanford, UCLA, ... . And let's not get into the overseas people I was corresponding with (NextStage will never get another government contract if I do, I'll betcha).
This later led to John and I going on a roadtrip for one glorious summer in which we stopped in at Penn State College Park (I think it's University Park now) so I could learn viola da gamba (that one I didn't keep up with. Sorry, Erin), played at Carnegie-Mellon's now famous robotics labs, climbed what the U of Pitt students called "The Tower of Learning" and CM students called "The Heights of Ignorance"... it remains as one of my most cherished memories.
But I digress...



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