As a former Tufts grad myself, I took special enjoyment from reading this article. The difference is when I was there (65-69) the "commuter lab" consisted of huge machines that could sort data entry cards really fast. My how far we have come in just one lifetime.
One of great things about being a "boomer" is that we have had the opportunity to watch how technology has EXPLODED over the past 70 years. I remember vacuum tubes in radios, when TV was just black and white and what a revelation it was when color TV's were developed. I remember party lines on telephones. When a portable transistor radio was high technology I had a car phone when they first became popular, and was always amazed by how a phone signal could find me speeding down a highway a 70mph. I bought my first computer (an Apple 2c) for $2400 (in 1983 money) This was the era of foppy discs and if you put 2 discs worth of data, at the same time you could freeze the machine. The first "portable" computers (Compac) needed strong men to carry them, and now we carry many times the computer power in our pockets. Then came the internet and you know the rest. Now we can speak to computer and they talk back. All pretty cool, btw.
So much for my trip down memory lane, but getting back to the OP, this was a great piece that tells us something new about the Pats and introduces us to someone we didn't know existed. It also makes me more comfortable that the Pats "next man up" philosophy is not limited to the field, but on the coaching staff and other football operations areas like scouting and player personnel.
Now did I ever tell you about how the Tufts got their nickname, the Jumbos......
