How many people here have been to one of her lectures? Where she used to hold up 11-inch bits of wire, explaining that "This is a nanosecond" and sometimes carried around a coil of wire that was a light-microsecond long?
--Phil Sevetson -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 4:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets Grace Hopper used to tell about the destroyer that lit up the Naval Yard outside of D.C. and crashed the data center. Personally, my fav was the Ops manager that upgraded the walkie-talkies for tech support from 1 watt to 3 watts(I think)-anyway if they were within 25' of a Memorex controller(DASD) it would bleep on itself.... In a message dated 3/22/2012 3:48:37 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: made a sweep they crashed on the mainframe, anyone heard that before ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
