Abstract

Being a 16-year-old kid going to UC Berkeley right before the 1960s was not conducive to academic success. That was my situation: Having graduated from high school early with no strong academic motivation, being immature, and with the distractions of Cal, I dropped out after one year of classes and two more years of goofing off. In retrospect, this disaster (my parent's words) led to a 57-year (and still counting) successful career in the computer industry where I participated in and contributed to the evolution from a few large computers to billions of personal computing devices.

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