While building and testing a bubble chamber to detect neutrons at the Institute of Experimental Physics in Trieste, next room a blonde girl was punching cards reporting data from bubble chambers pictures taken in Geneva CERN Laboratory. When she finished a deck of cards I was invited to accompany her to downtown where a public utility company hosted the only computer in Trieste in 1959. On the way down we took a gelato and the deck of cards fell to the ground and was reassembled. Somebody probably lost a Nobel prize in physics because of a gelato.
Tullio
Ahhhhh the big "swoop" from Lejeune!! A few fond memories (mostly those weekends are blank) My favorite was to Baltimore. They had a club there that had a ratio of about 60 girls to each guy. All girl colleges and the secrataries from D.C. The 360/65 I worked on was at 2d FASC on Lejuene. while I was there we went from having 512k to 768k of RAM. They brought the 1/4 meg of mem in on a low-boy flatbed semi. All wires then none of this chip foolishness, LOL. Years later I was at McDonnell Douglas and was told that they were bringing in 9 meg apeice for the three 370's we were running. Here I am waiting for a convoy when a guy with a briefcase shows up and installs all 27 meg in chip form.
Ah someone who knows what swooping is, not many of us around. Close with Camp Lejeune, I was just North at Cherry Point. Never made that stop in Baltimore as I was married already, wife had a good job in CT so she did not move down to NC. I was only there 4 and a half Mo. after the Westpac tour (Okinawa). Was at Cherry Point less than a week when I found someone who lived in the same town as me looking for a ride on the swoop so there were at least 2 in the car all the way. Always had 2 others from NYC also, so I made money on the swoop.
The time in the Marines was not bad for being drafted, the first 3 of us in Alpha order went there, we all got better jobs than the ones we know drafted for the Army the same day and none of us went to Vietnam.
I did not look at that as luck when I learned whare I was going though.
Ahhhhh the big "swoop" from Lejeune!! A few fond memories (mostly those weekends are blank) My favorite was to Baltimore. They had a club there that had a ratio of about 60 girls to each guy. All girl colleges and the secrataries from D.C. The 360/65 I worked on was at 2d FASC on Lejuene. while I was there we went from having 512k to 768k of RAM. They brought the 1/4 meg of mem in on a low-boy flatbed semi. All wires then none of this chip foolishness, LOL. Years later I was at McDonnell Douglas and was told that they were bringing in 9 meg apeice for the three 370's we were running. Here I am waiting for a convoy when a guy with a briefcase shows up and installs all 27 meg in chip form.
Ah someone who knows what swooping is, not many of us around. Close with Camp Lejeune, I was just North at Cherry Point. Never made that stop in Baltimore as I was married already, wife had a good job in CT so she did not move down to NC. I was only there 4 and a half Mo. after the Westpac tour (Okinawa). Was at Cherry Point less than a week when I found someone who lived in the same town as me looking for a ride on the swoop so there were at least 2 in the car all the way. Always had 2 others from NYC also, so I made money on the swoop.
The time in the Marines was not bad for being drafted, the first 3 of us in Alpha order went there, we all got better jobs than the ones we know drafted for the Army the same day and none of us went to Vietnam.
I did not look at that as luck when I learned whare I was going though.
Even rarer than knowing what the swoop was is that I was a draftee also. I had no idea that you could be drafted into any branch other than the Army. I still remember the very second a VERY pissed off female 1st Lt., who was giving us the test a AFEES, told me and 2 other troublemakers to "You three go with that gunny in the back wearing the blue trousers!" We were only half way through the test but she said we passed with "flying colors". I spent that very night in MCRD Deigo. True to her word she gave me a very high GCT which qualified me for a slot in Forced Recon in Nam. Gee thanks alot! lol I to this day think everything that I am about to say to a woman over BEFORE I say it.
My first programming class was in Quantico VA it was for COBOL and taught by a lady named Grace Hopper. The only thing I got was the understanding of a nanosecond, she used a piece of wire a little less than a foot long to represent the nanosecond and explained that a piece representing a second could strech nearly to the moon. I don't think anyone in the class understood more than 3 things that lady had to say in 6 weeks. She was a LtCmdr in the Navy and a prof at MIT. Her mind just worked on a different level than us poor dunb Marines. We were all asked to stay and retake the class in the next cycle from a guy with IBM.
Wow!! Admiral Hopper was one of the pioneers of computing. She invented the compiler, for example.
Wow!! Admiral Hopper was one of the pioneers of computing. She invented the compiler, for example.
Thanks for introducing me to that site. If you read the biographies, most of those scientist women did research without any recognition, academic status and even salary! I think all jokes about women's brains are totally silly (I have a daughter with a degree in theoretical biophysics).
Tullio
Wow!! Admiral Hopper was one of the pioneers of computing. She invented the compiler, for example.
Thanks for introducing me to that site. If you read the biographies, most of those scientist women did research without any recognition, academic status and even salary! I think all jokes about women's brains are totally silly (I have a daughter with a degree in theoretical biophysics).
Tullio
Yes, I found the joke about women's brains irritating. I hadn't heard of Admiral Hopper before, my daughter Es99 probably has, as her degree is in astrophysics (hope I got it right Es).
Yes, I found the joke about women's brains irritating.
I can understand that - it reveals more about the drawer of the diagram than the subject!
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I hadn't heard of Admiral Hopper before, my daughter Es99 probably has, as her degree is in astrophysics (hope I got it right Es).
Cool! Way to go Es!
Ah, so has Es been keeping that light under a bushel huh?
[ of course, I'm still smarting ( or is it dumbing? ) - as I should be - for not having picked up that Es99 refers to Einsteinium ( atomic number 99 ). Doh! ]
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Wow!! Admiral Hopper was one of the pioneers of computing. She invented the compiler, for example.
Well, I reckon I've read about 150+ scientific text books, cover to cover, in my life and about 30 of those are dedicated to computing. Not one of them has mentioned that:
a) The compiler had an inventor.
b) It was a woman.
c) Stated her name.
Maybe Ada Lovelace gets a mention, or Melinda because she's married to Bill Gates and that's it......
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Wow!! Admiral Hopper was one of the pioneers of computing. She invented the compiler, for example.
Well, I reckon I've read about 150+ scientific text books, cover to cover, in my life and about 30 of those are dedicated to computing. Not one of them has mentioned that:
a) The compiler had an inventor.
b) It was a woman.
c) Stated her name.
Maybe Ada Lovelace gets a mention, or Melinda because she's married to Bill Gates and that's it......
Cheers, Mike.
Maybe you should read also "The computer from Pascal to von Neumann" by Hermann H. Goldstine, one of the ENIAC builders, who in the last chapter details the birth of programming languages, including the contributions of Grace Hopper.
Tullio
Maybe you should read also "The computer from Pascal to von Neumann" by Hermann H. Goldstine, one of the ENIAC builders, who in the last chapter details the birth of programming languages, including the contributions of Grace Hopper.
Tullio
Thanks Tullio! I'll whip over to Amazon right now... :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
While building and testing a
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While building and testing a bubble chamber to detect neutrons at the Institute of Experimental Physics in Trieste, next room a blonde girl was punching cards reporting data from bubble chambers pictures taken in Geneva CERN Laboratory. When she finished a deck of cards I was invited to accompany her to downtown where a public utility company hosted the only computer in Trieste in 1959. On the way down we took a gelato and the deck of cards fell to the ground and was reassembled. Somebody probably lost a Nobel prize in physics because of a gelato.
Tullio
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Ah someone who knows what swooping is, not many of us around. Close with Camp Lejeune, I was just North at Cherry Point. Never made that stop in Baltimore as I was married already, wife had a good job in CT so she did not move down to NC. I was only there 4 and a half Mo. after the Westpac tour (Okinawa). Was at Cherry Point less than a week when I found someone who lived in the same town as me looking for a ride on the swoop so there were at least 2 in the car all the way. Always had 2 others from NYC also, so I made money on the swoop.
The time in the Marines was not bad for being drafted, the first 3 of us in Alpha order went there, we all got better jobs than the ones we know drafted for the Army the same day and none of us went to Vietnam.
I did not look at that as luck when I learned whare I was going though.
Try the Pizza@Home project, good crunching.
RE: RE: Ray, Ahhhhh the
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Even rarer than knowing what the swoop was is that I was a draftee also. I had no idea that you could be drafted into any branch other than the Army. I still remember the very second a VERY pissed off female 1st Lt., who was giving us the test a AFEES, told me and 2 other troublemakers to "You three go with that gunny in the back wearing the blue trousers!" We were only half way through the test but she said we passed with "flying colors". I spent that very night in MCRD Deigo. True to her word she gave me a very high GCT which qualified me for a slot in Forced Recon in Nam. Gee thanks alot! lol I to this day think everything that I am about to say to a woman over BEFORE I say it.
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RE: My first programming
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Wow!! Admiral Hopper was one of the pioneers of computing. She invented the compiler, for example.
Director, Einstein@Home
RE: Wow!! Admiral Hopper
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Thanks for introducing me to that site. If you read the biographies, most of those scientist women did research without any recognition, academic status and even salary! I think all jokes about women's brains are totally silly (I have a daughter with a degree in theoretical biophysics).
Tullio
RE: RE: Wow!! Admiral
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Yes, I found the joke about women's brains irritating. I hadn't heard of Admiral Hopper before, my daughter Es99 probably has, as her degree is in astrophysics (hope I got it right Es).
RE: Yes, I found the joke
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I can understand that - it reveals more about the drawer of the diagram than the subject!
Cool! Way to go Es!
Ah, so has Es been keeping that light under a bushel huh?
[ of course, I'm still smarting ( or is it dumbing? ) - as I should be - for not having picked up that Es99 refers to Einsteinium ( atomic number 99 ). Doh! ]
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: Wow!! Admiral Hopper
)
Well, I reckon I've read about 150+ scientific text books, cover to cover, in my life and about 30 of those are dedicated to computing. Not one of them has mentioned that:
a) The compiler had an inventor.
b) It was a woman.
c) Stated her name.
Maybe Ada Lovelace gets a mention, or Melinda because she's married to Bill Gates and that's it......
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: RE: Wow!! Admiral
)
Maybe you should read also "The computer from Pascal to von Neumann" by Hermann H. Goldstine, one of the ENIAC builders, who in the last chapter details the birth of programming languages, including the contributions of Grace Hopper.
Tullio
RE: Maybe you should read
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Thanks Tullio! I'll whip over to Amazon right now... :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal