For awhile, I worked at the Washington Navy Yard with a number of people who had known Grace. This was back in 1995 and was after she had passed, so I never had the honor of meeting her.
One of the people I worked for, the datacenter Director, told me that she had worked for him for awhile. He said it was really funny because he wasn't sure if she worked for him, or he worked for her. He told me that every time he told her that they didn't have money in the budget for one of her trips, he started receiving phone calls from Congressmen who, I assume, would suggest that he might have real budget problems soon. I miss the days when I worked there... really great people. Greg Schmeelk Sr. Systems Programmer J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. Cell: 678-416-2358 E-Mail: [email protected] From: Tony Harminc <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 03/26/2012 05:23 PM Subject: Re: Grace Hopper Stories!! (was RE: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets) Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On 23 March 2012 11:53, Sevetson, Phil <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? I am surprised that a nanosecond ruler has not shown up as a standard scientific novelty. There are various examples of them on the net, but they are hand crafted by physics teachers and professors. What we need is a cheap plastic ruler 1 ns long, with no inches or cm or other clutter. Played straight, so to speak, as though we really used such a ruler as an everyday tool. It would just barely be feasible to have ps divisions, though the unaided eye could not use them to measure things. But 100 and 10 ps divisions would be quite usable. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
