My first non-student job was for Tenet Inc. in Sunnyvale. During my second year of college I went looking for a place that might have had a Data General Nova minicomputer that I could look at. This is the computer I'd told my dad I was going to buy someday. My friend, Allen Baum, and I walked into the wrong door and saw a larger computer being constructed and in a display room. We were impressed and asked for applications and we were both hired as programmers. I stayed on working for most of a year. I got to see some incredible computer hardware and software but economic times were bad and the company folded. I'd taken a year off of college and now had enough money to go to Berkeley the following year.