I read the book The Soul of a New Machine in 1982 when I was an undergraduate in India. I was so impressed that I became determined to get into software develop

I read the book The Soul of a New Machine in 1982 when I was an undergraduate in India. I was so impressed that I became determined to get into software development as a career. Then I came to America for grad school and got a programming job on campus in a science lab and the first thing I saw in the computer room was a Data General MV8000. I was awestruck that I was seeing the actual machine described in the book. I still remember learning to program in C on that machine - many happy hours on weekends.