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Ken Olsen in front of the Maynard, Massachusetts headquarters of Digital Equipment Corporation. Simply known in DEC circles as "The Mill", this 19th century complex that once made blankets for the civil war was a million-square-foot hive of engineers who produced some of the most consequential computer systems in history.

I had the good fortune to work here for five years, exploring it's labyrinthian spaces that included tunnels below water level and catwalks that connected buildings together, almost never at the same floor. In the summer the rooftop AC units would overflow and we would get plastic sheets to cover our monitors from the rain they produced.