I read this book when I was in college and it had a profound impact on me - it was one of the primary motivators for me to get into computer science. Then when

I read this book when I was in college and it had a profound impact on me - it was one of the primary motivators for me to get into computer science. Then when I came to the US for grad school in the mid 1980s, I got a programming job on campus in a lab and was shown around the computer room by my supervisor. And there I came face to face with the DG MV8000 and gave me a tremendous thrill. For the next couple of years when I worked on that machine (learning C among other things), I used to imagine the scenes from the book.