I had that fortunate experience around '73 or '74. She was a guest lecturer at my college's ACM student chapter. She was a Naval Commander at the time (I think this is after her recall from retirement). She left her office in the Pentagon, flew to Atlanta, rented a car & made a 2 hour drive to address a dozen or so computer geeks. She stayed overnight & I got to sit next to her at dinner. She gave the nano-second demo (I unfortunately lost mine over the years), saying "to make 'em faster you've got to make 'em smaller". She also predicted that within a very few years after we graduated from college, we would have desktop computers with more horsepower that all that currently existed. She predicted the Y2K bug, saying that she wanted to be around at the millenium, just to see how the bug was handled and to experience the "wildest New Year's Eve party in history"!
Randy -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sevetson, Phil Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 11:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Grace Hopper Stories!! (was RE: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets) 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
