I saw her once in the mid-70s at an ACM meeting in Bloomington, Illinois. I recall a story she told about her first assignment at the Pentagon. She had an office and an assistant. But no furniture in the office and no budget. That did not stop her. Fortunately, her assistant was a good scrounger, and within a day she had her furniture, and she had not had to touch her non-existant budget or her own personal funds. Those "nan0-second" wires she would hand out were obtained by similar means. At the pentagon, the wiring in the phone closets was constantly being changed. She or her assistants would procure the scrap wiring that the phone guy had removed and use it for her lectures.
When she eventually reached flag rank, she selected the Jolly Roger as her personal flag. Jeff Holst ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
