difficulties projects would encounter. The pipe and filter and other features of Unix made it possible to respond regularly to those kinds of customer requests; we could put together simple solutions to problems and respond quickly to customer requests because of the flexibility of the Unix environment. Scene: An early Unix demo to the partner project people, mid-1981. Skeptical old-timer: All of that is very interesting, but can it do anything useful for the project, like create a specialized telephone directory? Art: Sure. We'll just do a "grep" on the names in the project roster and the names in the company phonebook, "pipe" it to a new file...and there it is. Project Stories The Team Yes, we formed a team, a beautiful team, with 20­25 performers. Some were experienced TRW veterans, but most members of the team were in their 20s (the GEN-Ys of today), a few fresh out of college including undergraduates, some with master's and PhD degrees, a good mix of male and female personnel, a few non-natives (from South America, Asia, and the Middle East), and a lot of enthusiasm. It did not take a long time for the team to gel, with many having lunch together most days (do people still do that these days?), oth- ers even becoming good social friends. And of course, we also had your typical "nerds"