Re: RPG Trivia

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Those nanoseconds are about 11.3" long. Got my personal Grace Hopper
nanosecond around here somewhere. Heard her speak in Grand Rapids at
Calvin College when I was attending there.  She also carried a 900ft
long 'Micro-Second', and described the process of creating pico-seconds:
"Put your nano-second into a pepper grinder and start crankin'. There ya
have it, pico-seconds all over the table."  She was indeed a captivating
speaker. She went over her allotted time by a least an hour and we all
missed dinner, however not one person left the room before she was done.

 - Larry

"Westdorp, Tom" wrote:
> 
> Well some guy won $1M on 'Millionaire' by knowing Grace Hopper discovered a
> moth in the core of the malfunctioning ENIAC(?) causing computer glitches to
> become known as bugs.  I heard Grace tell the story herself once at an IBM
> function.  She was really something.  She also used to go around passing out
> wire nanoseconds, pieces of wire the length of which electricity would
> travel in one nanosecond.

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