Randy McGee:  

A.K.A. MAGOO Spring Valey High: I played Trombone in the band and was in AF JROTC. After U. of SC, I went to work for Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) as an Educational Specialist teaching courses in programming, RT-11, and VAX/VMS. I traveled a lot spending a lot of time in the Boston area at the Bedford training facility. I also spent some time at the Dallas training facility. After two years, I was looking for something different and as luck would have it an old friend from USC showed up in one of my classes. Turns out they were looking for someone to help support their new VAX system, so off I went to Northwestern University. At Northwestern I worked in the Vogelback computing center supporting both the VAX/VMS system and programming a Modcomp system that provided front end terminal (yes, those old CRTs) connections for a CDC Cyber mainframe. As much as I loved the VAX, the Modcomp was actually more interesting as one of ...Expand for more