Bob Knight:  

Post HHS, went to New Mexico Tech 'cause they had the only Computer Science degree program in the state. After working as a student coop for 2.5 years at Rockwell International in El Segundo, I graduated in '76. My primary work focus was managing computing systems. I did stints as systems programmer and Director at Tech's computer center. I was able to get on the ARPANET starting at Tymshare in 1979, where I was manager of systems running TENEX and Augment (known as NLS at SRI International) which was Douglas Englebart's creation. You may have used one of his inventions: the computer mouse. See wikipedia for a look at his visionary career. I then became manager of Stanford's educational computing facility, LOTS. See "Hackers in Paradise" (Rolling Stone issue no. 367, Google is your friend to find it) for an article on LOTS. In 1982, I was in Oslo sitting at a ARPANET terminal and logged into my systems at Stanford. I thought "This [network] is going to change the world." It has. I also was manager of the Network Information Center computing facility, the only host dual-homed to ARPANET and MilNet, at SRI International. For an interesting history of networking from the 60's to 1988, see "Circuits, Packets and Protocols" by Pelkey, et. al. It is not cheap nor is it an easy read, but it is rewarding. From my experience, I can say it's mostly accurate, pieced together 30+ years later by the authors.. I had the good fortune of working with pioneers in Internet technology in California, three of whom are in the Internet Hall of Fame, but New Mexico was always in my heart. I co-founded a company...Expand for more