I just noticed that an anniversary slipped by last week. My start date at Sun was July 29, 1985. Time flies when you’re having fun….
When I joined the fledgling East Coast Division, there were five of us: Barry Folsom (ex DEC, VP ECD), his admin (whose name I forget), Sharon (HR), and Kim (who, like me, was ex-Mosaic). For a few days we borrowed one room in the Sun sales office in Waltham; it held three chairs, so two of us had to be travelling at all times. Eventually we moved into some rented space up the road, on Winter Street in Lexington. Our offices weren’t actually adjacent, so we came by one midnight and strung some (unauthorized) Ethernet cable through the suspended ceiling panels. My desktop machine was a Sun-1, called “suneast”; my phone line doubled as our UUCP connection to the outside world. A few weeks after that we moved into a new building in Lexington, and I published the existence of suneast to the world. Life was good.