From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 4902 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2020 17:02:56 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 3 Aug 2020 17:02:56 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 4987B9CA7E; Tue, 4 Aug 2020 03:02:51 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF189CA7F; Tue, 4 Aug 2020 03:02:12 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 35F4E9CA7F; Tue, 4 Aug 2020 03:02:09 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 2117 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Tue, 04 Aug 2020 03:02:08 AEST Received: from fourwinds.com (fourwinds.com [63.64.179.162]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 62E8A9CA7E for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2020 03:02:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from darkstar.fourwinds.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fourwinds.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id 073GQoSw921172 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 09:26:50 -0700 Received: from darkstar.fourwinds.com (jon@localhost) by darkstar.fourwinds.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 073GQosa921169 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2020 09:26:50 -0700 Message-Id: <202008031626.073GQosa921169@darkstar.fourwinds.com> From: Jon Steinhart To: The Unix Heritage Society In-reply-to: References: <202008021340.072Demtg086822@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> <8CF368A4-E75C-4123-8CB8-1E5BFA2E3C24@robdiamond.com> <202008021905.072J53Ug884344@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <0ee2d259-f285-e7b3-e628-3f72127190a0@osta.com> Comments: In-reply-to "John P. Linderman" message dated "Mon, 03 Aug 2020 08:55:28 -0400." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <921167.1596472010.1@darkstar.fourwinds.com> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 09:26:50 -0700 X-JON-SPAM: local delivery Subject: Re: [TUHS] BTL summer employees X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 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" Heinz Lycklama writes: > Jon, this brings back memories of working with summer students and > Explorer Scout high schools students (like yourself) during my years > at Bell Labs in MH. I have to credit Carl Christensen for bringing me > in to work with him in helping making computers and training resources > available to Explorer Scouts on Monday evenings shortly after I started > at Bell Labs in 1969. I enjoyed this time in helping and motivating the > students as well as taking them on hiking and spelunking trips in NY. > I had one summer student work for me on the LSX projects. He was so > brilliant that I had a challenge to keep him busy with the tasks I gave > him because he finished them so quickly. One of the motivations > for doing LSX was actually providing a platform for the music synthesizer > that Hal Alles was building. Yes, aside from all of the amazing technical stuff, I'm really glad that you and Carl introduced me to spelunking. I'm fuzzy on the details on Hal's synthesizer. I thought that he was building the digital filter stuff for the SS1, and making music was a side-effect that took on a life of its own. I do remember the really clever keyboard that Dave Hagelbarger built for it, and the day that Stevie Wonder came to check it out and the halls were clogged with his admirers. John P. Linderman writes: > Students living near MH had a bit of a leg up, having access to the > Explorers (did that include any young women?). Offspring of employees, > particularly executive level employees, seemed to appear quite often. Adam > Buchsbaum and Rich Cox and Terry Crowley come to mind. But, as the names I > remembered demonstrate, they were exceptionally bright, and often became > (valued) regular employees. I share Heinz's recollection about trying to > keep them busy. Terry Crowley joined us as a summer student, and we gave > him the "summer project" of making some improvements (like eliminating the > 512-byte record size limit) to /bin/sort. He came back in under a week and > asked "What's next?" -- jpl There were three young women in scouts when I was there although two of them (Andrea and Kristen) were daughters of Hans Lie who was an advisor along with Heinz and Carl. Living near MH was a mixed blessing. I lived 8 miles away and bicycled there, uphill both ways. The final daily test was making it up Glenside Road on my old heavy Raleigh bike. I remember some issues around that; there were no employee showers at the labs. But, it turned out that dress code was up to your supervisor and Joe was OK with me wearing shorts. I occasionally had to explain that to old-timers who would see me in a hall and who thought that there was a fixed dress code. Jon