RIP: Betty Holberton

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Wed Dec 12 13:47:30 2001

  12 inches for a thousandth of a second sounds a little off...though
I'm too lazy to do the math...

   -Dave

On December 12, Geoff Reed wrote:
> 12 inch copper wire IIRC for MS
>
> Packet of cracked pepper for NS
>
> packet of salt for FemtopSecond
>
> IIRC....
>
> At 11:08 AM 12/12/01 -0800, you wrote:
>
>
> >On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Gene Buckle wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > >
> > > > On December 11, jpero_at_sympatico.ca wrote:
> > > > > Look to /.
> > > > >
> > > > > This is one whom coined the bug and debugging I think. :-)
> > > >
> > > > If you're talking about the terms, that was Rr. Adm. Grace Hopper.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Speaking of whom, do you know where I could obtain a video tape of the
> > > talks she used to give? I'm especially interested in the one where she
> > > related the anecdote about her needing a wire a nanosecond (pico?) long.
> > >
> > > g.
> > >
> >
> >She used to pass them out in her presentations, Gene. They were
> >approximately 12" long.
> > - don
>
>

-- 
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
Received on Wed Dec 12 2001 - 13:47:30 GMT

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