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charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I was one of those high school employees, but worked year-round on weekends a= nd full time in the summers into college. I came from the Explorer=E2=80=99s= Club (scouts). Walter L. Brown of the Radiation Physics deptartment hired m= e mainly as a sysadmin on his lab=E2=80=99s PDP 11/45. (I still have all the= manuals!). I also did some coding for him - one project I remember was doin= g some sort of processing of raw data from a magnetometer on the Voyager-1 s= pacecraft. I also worked for Steve Bourne re-writing some FORTRAN code into C= .=20 I would use the terminals in the Unix room typing my school papers using tro= ff, printing them out on the phototypesetter, and presenting them in a Bell L= abs white cover. I got to chat with Brian and Dennis and Doug (hi Doug!) and= others often.=20 I remember having lunch downstairs in the cafeteria and learning to play GO a= nd having conversations with random employees that blew the mind of this tee= nager. I remember Steve Marcus showing me his speech synthesizer and speech r= ecognition system, playing with a Unix system running in a box the size of a= toaster oven, going to talks that mostly went over my head but still learni= ng a huge amount, wandering those long hallways and peeking into people=E2=80= =99s labs, ogling at the Cray in the computer center, etc.=20 Those years created a future for me: I worked at AT&T (Long Lines and Intern= ational) and Sun Microsystems, and still use Unix every day at Two Sigma (a q= uantitive hedge fund with a huge Unix infrastructure).=20 Not sure I made any lasting contributions, but it left a lasting impression o= n me.=20 Rob > On Aug 2, 2020, at 9:42 AM, Doug McIlroy wrote: >=20 > =EF=BB=BF >>=20 >> My unscientific survey of summer students was that they either came >> from scouts, or were people working on advanced degrees in college. >=20 > Not all high-school summer employees were scouts (or scout equivalents - > kids who had logins on BTL Unix machines). I think in particular of Steve > Johnson and Stu Feldman, who eventually became valued permanent employees.= > The labs also hired undergrad summer employees. I was one. >=20 > Even high-school employees could make lasting contributions. I am > indebted to Steve for a technique he conceived during his first summer > assignment: using macro definitions as if they were units of associative > memory. 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