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1. Can you name each piece of equipment? 1204, 1101, 2103

2. The fellow on the left, Pete Rosa, is responsible for the names DCOS and AIDE (AIDE is not meant to be an acronym Pete said look in the dictionary. The meaning is "an assistant"). 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, Don Birmingham, 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 - Chuck From 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. Bill Hill 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 - Les Abrams is Responsible for putting words to the letters AIDE (Abrams Independently Defined Euphoria. He loved acronyms too much to leave it alone!) Wrote the first Message Processing module for the pre-DCOS operating system.

Pic # Those who identified them:
1. Paul Boltauzer
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3. Paul Boltauzer
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AIDE Paul Boltauzer

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