Our original plan to store a copy of the code at USC proved a little shortsighted. First of all, we realized we should use more than one storage location for redundancy, so all that work wouldn’t go to waste if the code was discovered. But it turned out there was an even bigger issue: the code base was humongous. Trying to store it all in one location would run too big a risk of being detected. So we began spending a lot of time hacking into systems on the Arpanet, looking for other safe "storage lockers." It began to feel like getting the code from DEC was the easy part, while the big challenge was figuring out where to stash copies of it. We gained access to computer systems at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, in Maryland, and other places. Unfortunately, the system at Patuxent River had minimal storage available.