Hi Phil,
Ah yes. 11.8 inches, I believe. I still have mine. The last time I saw her, she was handing out picoseconds as well - the little 'to go' packets of ground pepper. I lost my picoseconds along the way. Once upon a time, when I was a student at Hartnell College in the Monterey Bay area, I was also the president of the student chapter of the Data Processing Management Association. Grace Hopper was often in the area at the Naval Post Graduate School, and there was a large data center. Our Parent DPMA chapter was able to arrange for her to speak to us several times at the NPGS. She was absolutely amazing. She helped to light the 'fire in the belly' for many of us. After the presentation, and usually a tour with stop and talks along the tours, we would gather 'round for a chat - those of us who were willing to stay late. A couple of times, she rewarded those few of us who stayed for the deep dive by introducing us to Arpanet. Last May, while in DC, I went to the Smithsonian to see the 'computer bug' and the rest of the displays, incuding hers. I was very disappointed that the display was down during renovations, but thrilled to run into a former neighbor of hers who remembered her fondly. Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Sevetson" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 8:53:33 AM 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
