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by matchagaucho 2546 days ago
My Dad spoke very highly of Paul. Bill and Paul were invited to BPA to program a PDP-10 computer to manage power station operations [1].

My Dad, a DEC Technician, would come home and say "There are a couple teenagers from Seattle programming the BPA mainframes."

He then built a Heathkit home computer and taught me BASIC because "Paul and Bill can do it. So can you."

[1] https://www.bpa.gov/news/newsroom/Pages/Legacy-computer-syst...