Acknowledgments
My career has been a series of collaborations and schemes. Though I’ve had many private dreams and aspirations, I always seemed to find someone to share them with. In that sense I feel a bit like the Sith, “Always two there are.”
The first collaboration that I could consider professional was with John Marchese at the age of 13. He and I schemed about building computers together. I was the brains and he was the brawn. I showed him where to solder a wire and he soldered it. I showed him where to mount a relay and he mounted it. It was a load of fun, and we spent hundreds of hours at it. In fact, we built quite a few very impressive-looking objects with relays, buttons, lights, even Teletypes! Of course, none of them actually did ...
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