My first non-student job was for Tenet Inc. in Sunnyvale.

During my second year of college I went looking for a place
that might have had a Data General Nova minicomputer that I
could look at. This is the computer I'd told my dad I
was going to buy someday. My friend, Allen Baum, and I walked
into the wrong door and saw a larger computer being constructed
and in a display room. We were impressed and asked for
applications and we were both hired as programmers.

I stayed on working for most of a year. I got to see some
incredible computer hardware and software but economic times
were bad and the company folded. I'd taken a year off of college
and now had enough money to go to Berkeley the following year.