12 Dec
2001
12 Dec
'01
1:47 p.m.
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:
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Gene Buckle wrote:
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
She used to pass them out in her presentations, Gene. They were
approximately 12" long.
- don On December 11, jpero(a)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.