You know, I should look through my old stuff more before posting. The company I was thinking of in my earlier post may have been MassComp, not MasPar. Though you say MasPar had a DEC connection, I believe MassComp was actually located in MA. Anyway, we got another great story from someone who really understands computers. Someone should take all of these types of stories from this list and write a pre-quel to the popular Hacker books, about how a lot of computer system really got born.