I'm kinda glad you didn't; it might have made the book I read as a kid (and again as an adult, and again with my offspring) less interesting somehow.
Uh, yes, h0p3 ... I didn't exactly start on that adventure thinking I'd write a book. Chasing after those hackers was orthogonal to my work in astronomy and the Keck telescope.
Yes, sir. I appreciate that. I think you made that very clear in the book as well. I'll agree that having OP's tooling back then would likely have been quite useful to you and others. I'm often terrible with words. What I meant to say was: thank you for writing the book. Your story has been an important part of my family's lives for three generations (your work is also mentioned 3 times in my ℍ𝕪𝕡𝕖𝕣𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱, and, prominently in my record of reaching out to others out of the blue [I've a habit of knocking on doors with low success rates]). Never thought I'd have the chance to say that to you. =D. `/salute`. Thank you, sir.
Thanks to you for brightening my afternoon -- oh, you brought a smile to my face.
My happy wishes to you and your family!
=Cliff
You should write about that sometime! /s
Thanks for the comment! Going to check out your book now— I somehow hadn’t heard of it before despite it being right down my alley!
Please purchase 30,000 copies of the paperback -- at a nickel royalty per book, it'll help with my kids' tuition this month.
I was about to ask you to get around the campfire and tell the story again, but I see other commenters got ahead of me :). I'll be getting another Klein bottle soon for a gift, if you still do those :).
Hope you're doing well!
My smiles to you Mercer: it's fun to look back over my shoulder to a slowly vanishing time, when the Arpanet backbone ran at 4800 baud and a 1 megabyte Unix workstation was hot stuff...