I have been out-of-sorts for the past month or so and didn’t feel much like contributing to this blog. But I will try to continue.
My memory is fading and any help you all could give me on some of this would be appreciated. We moved into the Eyota house in January of 1976. Karen said that it was a warm winter and it was very muddy when the moving van brought the furniture. I don’t remember much of the first year until I got sick. I went to work at IBM every day. We were writing a compiler that would later be used to build the System/38 (an early IBM computer). The 38 evolved into the AS/400, a machine that IBM still makes to this day. I think I wouldn’t be too far off to say that the AS/400 is the most successful product IBM has ever produced. And I had a small part in creating it.
We started out going to church in a little chapel over near the Mayo Clinic. I guess we owned the building. I remember it was a small building with the chapel upstairs and most of the classrooms downstairs in the basement. I’m not sure, but I think the first person we met when we stopped at the building one day was Brother Duane Mathias. He was there doing some kind of maintenance. I don’t think we had actually moved into our house yet. But he welcomed us to the Ward (It may have been a Branch at that time) and showed us around.
We had to stay in the Ramada Inn for a week or so until we could close on the house and get our stuff from North Dakota. The kids loved that. They had a pool. Eventually everything came together and we were able to move in.
Dad