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Thinking Machine Corporation's First Year:
Robert Treat Paine Mansion, 1983-1984

 

 

Gathering for first corporate meeting, Danny's firetruck in the background

 

 

 

Danny in his office

 

 

 

Lyman Hurd, Richard Feynman, Brewster Kahle working

 

 

 

Brewster Kahle, Richard Feynman, Howard Resnikoff and lots of pizza

 

 

 

Richard Feynman at work in the garden

 

 

 

Richard and Lyman Hurd, discussing in the woods

 

 


Investor Bill Paley (right, CBS) talking with Danny Hillis in our office, the "Bubble Champber" (Richard Amster, seated)


From left: Bill Paley, Sheryl Handler (TMC president), Frank Stanton (investor, CBS), Marvin Minsky, unidentified man.

 

 

Our "cargo cult" moment: Howard Resnikoff and Danny Hillis (left, foreground) bid goodbye to Frank Stanton
(middle left) and Bill Paley (middle, two briefcases), accompanied by Sheryl Handler to the CBS helicopter

 

 

After that, Sheryl asked me (with Dick Stroud) to build a helicopter
in celebration of Bill Paley's "cargo cult" helicopter visit

 

 

Autumn 1983, old wing

 

 


Winter 1983-'84, view from back garden

 

 

The house was definitely haunted, but this is just a
photo of me leaning out of my office window.

 

 

 



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