At 02:10 PM 9/27/2004, you wrote:
Let me
guess, you're not exactly popular with the ladies, are you? :)
I guess it is
time to start a new mailing list ...
How to collect classic computers & be popular with the girls.
I don't know if we need that.
A classic computer worked for me.
I met my wife at a company outing when I was giving a demo to company
brass
of a homebrew 6800 I had made to convert NCR digital
Philips cassette
tapes
to 7 track 1/2" tape.
She was there, thought I was a brainiac and got interested.
And later when I jumped into the swimming pool (it was winter and cold)
she
knew I was the one!
It was a Motorola moment!
Ed K.
Same story here. I met my wife while working on a project where I was
programming in a "classic computer language". She was impressed that
I was able to quickly program something that others told her would take
weeks. My management gave me a free dinner at a fine restaurant for
myself and a date. My future wife told me that she would be glad to help
me figure out how to eat at an expensive restaurant. We went out to
supper and I never went home again except to get a change of clothes
once in a while.
Maybe it's a South Carolina thing.
- Ashley