From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id e27de032 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2018 17:17:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 8736EA1D06; Thu, 29 Nov 2018 03:17:38 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 028EFA1CE5; Thu, 29 Nov 2018 03:17:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id E4920A1CE5; Thu, 29 Nov 2018 03:17:25 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9A15BA1CE2 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2018 03:17:25 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 3AC0835E0F0; Wed, 28 Nov 2018 09:17:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 09:17:25 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Message-ID: <20181128171725.GJ5701@mcvoy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: [TUHS] stories X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Ken's story got me thinking about stuff I would still like to learn and his comment about "when I got to Bell Labs"... made me wonder how did Ken, Dennis, Brian, Joe and the rest of the crew make their way to Bell Labs? When I was just starting out, Sun was sort of the Bell Labs of the time (not that Sun was the same as Bell Labs but it was sort of the center of the Unix universe in my mind). So I wanted to go there and had to work at it a bit but I got there. Was Bell Labs in the 60's like that? If you were a geek was that the place to go? I was born in '62 so I don't have any memory of how well known the Labs were back then. So how was it that so many smart - and somewhat like minded it seems - people end up there? --lm