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Well, dang. I remember you from the very late 1980s at Stanford. Never met you but saw you on the timesharing systems of the time. A few years later I enjoyed a talk you gave at IBM Yorktown Heights about how you sneaked into Apple to build the graphing calculator.

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Well howdy, old-timer! That brings back some memories. (The '80s: after the dinosaurs, but before the giant armored sloths - back when neutrinos were massless and Λ was zero.)

Did you work on Axiom? That was the finest crafted computer algebra system.

No, I was in the physical sciences where we made our own glassware from sand, fire, and sweat. But we were happy in them days, though we was poor.

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