That is _very_ good, and I too recommend it. Irritatingly, for such an otherwise-excellent piece, it contains two glaring, minor errors: "information-processing techniques office" should be 'Information Processing Techniques Office' (its formal name; it's not a description); "the 1,103 dynamic memory chips used in the MAXC design" - that's the Intel 1103 chip. It is a good book; it goes a long way into explaining why the now-dominant form of computer user experience appeared on the West coast, ad not the East. One big gripe about it; it doesn't give enough space to Licklider, who more than anyone had the idea that computers were a tool for _all_ information (for everyone, from all walks of life), not just number crunching (for scientists and engineers). Everyone and everything in Dormouse is a descendant of his. Still, we have Mitchell Waldrop's "Dream Machine", which does an excellent job of telling his story. (Personal note: I am sad and ashamed to admit that for several years I had the office literally right next door next to his - and I had no idea who he was! This is kind of like a young physicist having the office right next door next to Einstein, and not knowing who _he_ was! I can only say that the senior people in my group didn't make much of Lick; which didn't help.) Still, get "Dream Machine". Noel