John Ratzel

Around 1977 John was an intern at a Bedford, MA company, ECRM. It was there I met up with him and we became good friends. He took me on several tours of the MIT labs he was working in. I seem to recall at the school the students stlll had to enter their programs by punch cards - a very tedious and slow process. At ECRM John was able to use CRT terminals on our PDP-11 computers to run his programs, which saved him a lot of time at school. I helped him and he reviewed some my code. I have the...