Howard joined just after IBM swore off vacuum tubes for good. He managed products before going into facilities, eventually working on the Almaden project. Sonny started with a temp job. And working in the prototype lab. Ah, the future.
Sonny does have three children.
A few kind readers have pointed out that Thursday's column said the Blue Man Group shoots light bulbs out of a gun in an Intel commercial. In fact, the group uses a vacuum to pull some lights out of a wall, leaving a numeral 4 behind. Another sign of my backward thinking.