Dick Sonderegger has a much different story than most of our veterans -- he learned computers in the Marines during the Vietnam era. His story of HOW he got into computers is probably the best one I've ever heard, and you'll just have to listen to find it out! We shared an office for a few months on the Xerox Star project in the late 70's, and then I lost track of him. In this interview we talk about his Harvard and Marines experiences, his time at Data General during the "Soul of a New Machine" era (he knew those people), the Xerox Star effort and the big lightning storm that fried the local Ethernet, and much more.