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Essay Archive - The Cuckoo's Egg: Cliff's Persistence
The Cuckoo's Egg: Cliff's Persistence
"The Cuckoo's Egg" is a story of persistence, love for one's work and is just
plain funny! The story starts out with Clifford Stoll being "recycled" to a
computer analyst/webmaster.
Cliff, as he is affectionately called, is a long-haired ex-hippie that works at
Lawrence Berkeley Lab. He originally was an astronomer, but since his grant
wore out, he became a mainframe master. He was glad that instead of throwing
him out into the unemployment office, the Lab recycled their people and
downstairs he went, to the computer lab.
A few days after he becomes the master of the mainfr....
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