User:SherryReson/sandbox

Jed Riffe became associate director of Resource One soon after he and Pam Hardt took over the Haight Ashbury Switchboard's 501 c3 and changed the name to Resource One. Pam, the exec director/visionary, and Jed pitched TransAmerica Corp to donate the SDS 940 AKA XDS 940 and signed the deal in the board room at the original TransAmerica flat iron building before the tower was completed. I remember the impact Henry had on the project after he became involved. I was in charge of coordinating the switchboards where we originally were going to place terminals. We raised $80,000 to buy the hard drive which was the size of a refrigerator and build the controlled climate room for the XDS. I left Resource One after Peter Deutsch, one of the 940's creators, visited Resource One to see what we had done. Peter told us in a couple of years we would have a far more powerful computer in a box on our desktop than the obsolete 940. I recall feeling that the $1,000 a month electric bill to run the controlled climate room was a real problem. This is the best I can recall. So many great people were involved in the project.