[ale] Missing photo

Ken Cochran kwc at TheWorld.com
Fri Oct 1 13:06:51 EDT 2021


Had R.Adm Hopper as instructor in class/symposium Way Back When...
(umm... 1986?) Got one of her nanoseconds too but have misplaced it.
Quite an amazing lady. Memories... -k

> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 12:32:44 -0400 (EDT)
> To: Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com>, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Missing photo
> From: "jon.maddog.hall--- via Ale" <ale at ale.org>
>
> Leam,
>
> By the way, I have been meeting a lot of people of "a certain age"
> lately who started learning computers while in uniform.
>
> One lady, who is now a senior librarian in Indiana, started by being
> trained to be an operator, then a programmer, then the head of a large
> data center in the Navy.
>
> She, like I, got to meet Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper "back in the day".
>
> The computer industry had a lot of computer people introduced to computers
> through the armed forces.
>
> Warmest regards,
>
> maddog


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