Yes, this was in the Hudson valley.
And no, he didn't help me at all. He just provided the resources and watched what we did to see how schools would learn to use this new technology. I was given an APL book and unlimited computer time and access and told to go to it. Sometimes I wasn't even two pages ahead of the students! But we all survived, and several of my students went very successfully into computers.
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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing. G.K. Chesterton