Julie Martin Oral History Transcript Block 187 (Q20057)

Q: Bell Labs is the other part of the story that is fascinating to me. He talks about it a little bit here and therethe question of why did Bell Labs let these engineersat one point, talking about 9 Evenings in one of the essays he co-wrote with you, he says something like, The dozens of engineers who worked on this piece put in something like eight thousand hours working.