Hey fpl - this is a side note about my roomie RM who I mentioned in my last reply to you.

He took a double-E at NYU School of Engineering in the early 60's and got to know the early work on small devices.

But he chose to leave the field, he said, because he knew that to make a living, he'd have to wind up working for a defense contractor or a sub to a defense contractor.

I told him there's no way anyone can escape being a whore in this society, so it really didn't matter.

When he was up for the draft (Vietnam), he went CO and did three years as an inhalation therapist on Roosevelt Island. I wrote a letter of support to his draftr-board telling them that I was not by any means a personal pacifist, but that I honestly believed that RM was, and that his pacifism came from his deep Christian beliefs, as exemplied by the tutorial program he singlehandedly organized for kids in the South Bronx while he was completing his double-E.