Family, friends, Buffalo community come together to remember Katherine Massey (spectrumlocalnews.com) BUFFALO, N.Y. — Dozens of mourners entered Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church in downtown Buffalo on Monday to pay their final respects to Katherine Massey.
It is speculative but plausible to guess that the 1965 release of the PDP-8 might have instigated Gray’s own home computer project and the later creation of the ACS.
In the late 1980s, Katherine “Kat” Massey was tired of the perpetually overgrown lot on state property on her street, so she sent a letter on “Cherry Street Block Club” letterhead to the governor which led to it being cleaned up. Massey was the only one who knew that the letterhead — and the block club — were her own creations and that she was the only “club” member.