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...Elvy and Langerman met in what they call their "psycho singles" in Hurlbut. They got along well, despite their different backgrounds, Elvy grew up on a farm in Maryland with his mother, a race car-drive Langerman grew up in the suburbs of Cambridge...
Elvy did the normal things a teenager is expected to do. He had fun and played a bit with modems. Langerman was even less of the quintessential teenager. Four or five years before he came to Harvard, he ran what he terms two "small--we're talkin' real small" consulting companies which had him writing mailing programs for which he charged a little over a hundred dollars, but which ended up taking a couple of hundred hours. "I learned the hard way," he said. When his parents offered him the usual car or computer, he took the computer...
...didn't really know anything about computers before I met Langerman," Elvy readily points out. "It all started when he talked me into taking AM 110," he adds, almost in an accusatory tone...
...what really made the combination work? "He knows everything about computers," Elvy says of Langerman. "And he's as unscrupulous as all hill," Langerman retorts...
...Langerman quickly defends the purchase: "We didn't think about it that much. Mare's mom just saw it at a car-dealers in Annapolis and bought it on our behalf. I mean, we paid for it. It was a choice between a limo and a hearse. We were tempted to get a hearse for offensive clients...