Rene Valdes at Control Data

Rene Valdes at Control Data

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Rene Valdes at Control Data (his employer) in Bloomington in 1981, at the dawn of the personal computing revolution. Valdes landed his job after fleeing Cuba in 1980 as part of the Mariel Boatlift. He devoted much of his life to the computer industry, later taking a job with Microsoft. Used with the permission of Alan Lessik.

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Positively Gay Cuban Refugee Task Force

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Immigration