At that time, Gram was sharing digs with a friend of hers, Donna Russell, who as a director of software development at 20th Century Fox was able to offer me a job. I thought, Way cool—maybe I’ll even rub shoulders with some movie stars . I loved that job. I worked right on the lot, walking past soundstages to get to my building; the pay was fair, they were training me in developing applications using COBOL and IBM’s Basic Assembly Language, plus I was learning about working with IBM mainframes and HP minicomputers.