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It reminds me of #GeorgeDyson's brilliant memoir/history of computing, *Turing's Cathedral*, where he describes how he and the other children of the scientists building the first digital computers at the #PrincetonInstitute spent their summers in the basement, hand-winding cores for the early colossi their parents were building on the floors above them:
https://memex.craphound.com/2012/03/12/george-dysons-history-of-the-computer-turings-cathedral/
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