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 I was a student, but working as a 360/TSS programmer and PDP-10/20\\
-programmer in the CMU computer ctr.  I also did some hacking for the EE\\
+programmer in the CMU computer ctr. I also did some hacking for the EE\\
-dept mostly for free for them - as EE was my major.  My girlfriend at\\
+dept mostly for free for them - as EE was my major. My girlfriend at\\
 the time was working for an EE prof and she got me to bring UNIX over\\
-from CS (EE had a 11/20's and a prototype 11/34 <-- not a 34A) and CS\\
+from CS (EE had a 11/20's and a prototype 11/34 <– not a 34A) and CS\\
 of course had numerious 11's as they were building C.mmp and writing\\
-Hydra.  [CMU/CS actually ran UNIX on the ``pre-Hydra'' 11/40E <-- the E\\
+Hydra. [CMU/CS actually ran UNIX on the ``pre-Hydra'' 11/40E <– the E\\
 was a CMU/3 River's writeable microcode modification - very cool).]\\
-   \\
+\\
 Anyway, I had access to the only 11/45's on Campus in the computer\\
 center where I worked - which was important because V5 and V6 really\\
-wanted to be booted on an 11/45.  Dan Klein, who was math major, but\\
+wanted to be booted on an 11/45. Dan Klein, who was math major, but\\
 like me, had a similar job to mine, working for the CS Dept to pay his\\
-bills.  There was a lot of helping each other because the equipment we\\
+bills. There was a lot of helping each other because the equipment we\\
 had was both common and complementary - so all the systems programmers\\
-tended to have ``guest accounts'' in both worlds.  Since Dan and I were\\
+tended to have ``guest accounts''in both worlds. Since Dan and I were\\
 the common threads with access to all versions of the HW were sort in\\
-the middle of moving this stuff around.\\
+the middle of moving this stuff around.
-   \\
-Note: CMU/CS had already done the V5 to V6.  EE never had V5,\\
+<code>
-although any of us that had CS accounts has briefly used it there.\\
+ \\
-   \\
+</code>
+Note: CMU/CS had already done the V5 to V6. EE never had V5,\\
+although any of us that had CS accounts has briefly used it there.
+<code>
+ \\
+</code>
 In the fall of ??1976?? I believe, ted kowalski shows up for his OYOC\\
 year in the EE dept after his summer at Bell Labs, and graduating U\\
 Michigan (he was once Bill Joy's housemate at Michigan in a strange\\
-twist of fate).  He brought with him some stuff, including a photocopy\\
+twist of fate). He brought with him some stuff, including a photocopy\\
 of what would become K&R and copy of typesetter C, and a copy of\\
-UNIX/TS.  He also brought his cool (but unfinished) program he had\\
+UNIX/TS. He also brought his cool (but unfinished) program he had\\
 started to write originally at U Mich - fsck. [Hacking on fsck under\\
 the tutorial guidence of tjk was my first real introduction into UNIX\\
-file system internals]\\
+file system internals]
-   \\
+<code>
+ \\
+</code>
 Ted brought back to AT&T to the 11/34 support and eventually 11/34A and\\
-RK07 support that Dan and I would later do.  He also spoke of the\\
+RK07 support that Dan and I would later do. He also spoke of the\\
-upcomming 7th edition.  Ted wanted to get the 34 supported added back\\
+upcomming 7th edition. Ted wanted to get the 34 supported added back\\
 into the main line at AT&T, because it was clear that was going to be\\
-system most people bought from then on.  We keep asking when it was\\
+system most people bought from then on. We keep asking when it was\\
-going to be released.  While CMU was not the first V7 licensee - thanks\\
+going to be released. While CMU was not the first V7 licensee - thanks\\
 to Ted, we were very early.
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 Research arm which had a new group start up a person who originally had\\
 an appointment in EE (Ron Krutz) - CMIR was the ``Mellon Institute''\\
-part of Cargnie-Mellon Univ).  They  worked with industry and even took\\
+part of Cargnie-Mellon Univ). They worked with industry and even took\\
-on profit stuff.  Dan and I, brought the Kowalski/Cole/Klien UNIX over\\
+on profit stuff. Dan and I, brought the Kowalski/Cole/Klien UNIX over\\
 from EE to be the basis and added to write a driver for the newest DEC\\
-disk (CMIR had serial #3 RK07 and a very early 34A).  Ted was a little\\
+disk (CMIR had serial #3 RK07 and a very early 34A). Ted was a little\\
 nervious about the license, as CMIR was doing a lot of stuff in the