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I remember going to Holmdel to install our network backup product (which later became something named ABARS in AT&T if I remember well), in the 80s. For this young French Unix geek, this was like walking into the Olympe, among the gods :) Edit: Souvenirs, souvenirs. I remember how impressive the atrium was, nothing like it in France at the time (or now probably). However I was working in a basement room, which was incidentally full of Cisco routers. If I had seized the hint and bought a bit of stock, I'd be a richer man... Our software had a memory usage issue on the big Bell Labs file systems, and the very nice AT&T manager insisted that I would not be allowed to go back to France until I fixed the issue. This was a trivial linear reallocation problem, but there was obviously no Stack Overflow at the time so I had to invent exponential reallocation on the spot to get home. I still have the UUCP email paths to our correspondents in my mail archive.