MORE INFLUENTIAL FOLKS

1. Can you name each piece of equipment?
2. The fellow on the left is responsible for the names DCOS and AIDE. He also had a beautiful blue new '67 or '68 Thunderbird that received a hand-painted rally stripe by some mischievous "friends"(?). Ask Craig Benjamin, who was not involved, how he got punished for it. Also an ex-GE Computer Dept refugee.
3. Give the fellow on the right the credit for the overall system architecture. While he was a manager in the Engineering Dept. in late '65/early '66, he did the logic design for the first production 1204. Later was a VP. The 2nd ex-GE Computer Dept refugee to arrive at DPI.. Bill Bridge was the first.

4. On the left - Arrived from GE in '67. Wrote the first AIDE Compiler which executed on the 2103 in about five minutes after a bunch of Allstate programmers could not do one that ran on the IBM 360 in less than an hour! Major player in all versions of DCOS/AIDE. Remembered fondly by all.
5. Middle - The third of the many from GE. Worked on many of the hardware and software designs. Responsible for the answer "EH" on the console. First Manager of Customer Engineering (surprise!).
6 Right - Responsible for putting words to the letters AIDE (do you know what they are?) Wrote the first Message Processing module for the pre-DCOS operating system.

Pic # Those who identified them:
1. Paul Boltauzer
2. Paul Boltauzer
3. Paul Boltauzer
4. Paul Boltauzer
5. Paul Boltauzer
6. Paul Boltauzer
AIDE Paul Boltauzer

Paul knows everything doesn't he. But then he was there.