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To: The Duke

I, also, programmed in Fortran (mostly) on a Univac at Johnson Space Center — related to retrospective interactive simulation of certain Skylab-related data and some other projects.

“Those were the days” for sure. (Being young helps!)

I loved eating lunch there in the big cafeteria. No telling who you would meet and get to talk to. Or more often, mainly listen to.

Half the time I would even understand half of what they told me!

That was around 1980-1982. I learned a lot. Really interesting nerd city!


59 posted on 02/28/2024 6:09:26 PM PST by Weirdad (Orthodox Americanism: It's what's good for the world! (Not communofascism!))
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To: Weirdad
"That was around 1980-1982. I learned a lot. Really interesting nerd city!"

I was there around '83-'84. Living at Wolf Creek apts. in Clear Lake, and going to the movies at Baybrook with my fellow nerds on Friday nights (I saw "The Right Stuff" there :) ).

Plenty of great nerds about. I often wonder what has become of them.

68 posted on 03/01/2024 9:52:24 AM PST by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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