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This is quite quaint. I was lucky to start in computers when I was 8, a couple months before by 9th birthday. My first program was in Fortran II. I soon learned how to use the plug board on a 407 and the sorter and could do all kinds of Kool stuff. Over forty years later I'm still programming. The above is so amazing, as 1954 is my birth year. And I have really been lucky enough to see all of it, up close. RAND and others did solve those problems and then some. This amazes me: I bought a DVD player with all the features a couple months ago for $25.00 - I don't think RAND expected that either. I need to dig up a picture of a friend of mine since I was really little - Admiral Grace Hopper AKA The Mother of Computers. She presented me, some years back, a set of articles she wrote about the first computer Bug, actually it's a moth. Grace had mounted the articles and a page from her log book that had the moth taped to it. My 2nd daughter just had it remounted and it is quite a moment in history, as it now hangs again in my office. I need to see if there are any videos of the Admiral when she appeared on David Letterman on three different occasions - she gave him a run for his money with her "Nanoseconds" she hands out. Another section I need to add is about IBM, Microsoft, and Digital Research - from a PBS special - with my insider info added. I could have changed the history of the IBM PC DOS, and Microsoft would not have gotten into the OS market. No Windows you say. Sorry I made a different decision when I was younger. |
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