[1] Pamela Hardt-English was a graduate student in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.
"[2] Hardt-English joined Project One, a live-work community (sometimes referred to as a "technological commune"), conceptualized around Symbas School — an alternative high school — and housed in a multistory former factory building in San Francisco, in 1970.
In 1972, she arranged for the delivery of a decommissioned SDS 940, a mainframe computer, to the commune, establishing Resource One.
Resource One's goal was to link together the centers of counterculture across the Bay Area with a computer network.
[3] After leaving Project One, Hardt-English received master's degrees in agricultural engineering and food science from the University of California, Davis.