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• Eudaemonic research proceeded with the casual mania peculiar to this part of the world.
  Nude sunbathing on the back deck was combined with phone calls to Advanced Kinetics in Costa Mesa, American Laser Systems in Goleta, Automation Industries in Danbury, Connecticut, Arenberg Ultrasonics in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and Hewlett Packard in Sunnyvale, California, where Norman Packard's cousin, David, presided as chairman of the board....
• Our business is run on trust. We trust you will pay in advance.
• So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us?
  Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you....
• There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
  -- David Letterma...
• Infocom n. A now-legendary games company, active from 1979 to 1989
  hat commercialized the MDL parser technology used for Zork to produce a line of text adventure games that remain favorites among hackers....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• Hewlett Packard does it with precision.
• HP-SUX /H-P suhks/ n. Unflattering hackerism for HP-UX
  Hewlett-Packard's Unix port, which features some truly unique bogosities in the filesystem internals and elsewhere (these occasionally create portability problems)....