A frequent flier, Lukasik seldom boarded a plane without lugging aboard his thirty-pound “portable” Texas Instruments terminal with an acoustic coupler, so he could dial in and check his messages from the road. “I really used it to manage ARPA,” Lukasik recalled. “I would be at a meeting, and every hour I would dial up my mail. I encouraged everybody in sight to use it.” He pushed it on all his office directors and they pushed it on others. ARPA managers noticed that e-mail was the easiest way to communicate with the boss, and the fastest way to get his quick approval on things.
