Pete Seeger and the music of Resistance

Washinton Post

When I attended the U of Illinois, in the Engineering School, in the late Fifties, Pete Seeger was scheduled to perform at a concert there. But he could not sing at the University. and had to sing at
the YMCA instead - to a much small audience.

Illinois was still conservative, even in the Engineering School, that did not accept the Digital computer, but taught a course on the Analog computer instead. The only place you will find Analog computers now is a Science museum.

That made no difference to me. I became an expert on Vacuum tubes, specializing in exotic Radars that protected us from Societ nuclear bombers, that never existed.