Born in 1930; the Great Depression but privileged; relatively free youth (no play dates); WWII (very exciting to a young boy who liked to build model airplanes & play war); GA Tech engineer & Harvard MBA; Korean War - USAF (retired Captain, USAFR); pioneer in digital technology: installed RW 300, the1st industrial digital control system - now in Smithsonian; helped develop two of the first time-sharing computers - SDS 940 & SDS Sigma 7,precursors of PCs - now in Computer History Museum, helped plan both nodes of first Internet message - Xerox XDS Sigma 9 @ UCLA & XDS 940 @ SRI; high tech venture investor: 35+ start-up boards.