The Picturephone project did not fare well in the original two cities chosen for test marketing. In addition, Dr. David left the project to become President Nixon's Science Advisor. I did have a need for the lines, however. In 1972, I became editor of the Honeywell Computer Journal, a now-defunct magazine that we nevertheless published well enough at that time to win over Scientific American in a contest sponsored by the Printing Industries of America. Writing and creative work is not called up by opening the tap between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Inspirations really do come at odd hours.
That term, you may recall, was unknown then. I was setting out to do it, however, because we were going to put on magnetic tape the files we created on a Honeywell computer, to take to Datagraphics, a Phoenix firm, for photocomposition directly from our own copy. But that is a different story, and has nothing to do with working at home. From then until this day, I apparently program during my sleep, and cannot wait to get it into a permfile on the computer. So I have worked at home for over a decade.