To: Jamestown1630; Tell It Right
Admiral Hopper addressed my graduating class, and at the time, I didn't know who she was.
She looked like a wizened little old lady, but she was sharp, and I remember her smiling countenance and evident resident humor in her!
I later heard of her "founding" of the term "bug", and here is the "bug":
I don't remember if she mentioned her trademark "nanowires", sections of wire cut so that each wire showed how far an electric impulse traveled in one nanosecond:
I have always considered an unexpected privilege to have had her speak at my college graduation.
17 posted on
12/31/2025 7:46:36 PM PST by
rlmorel
(Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
To: rlmorel
She seems to have been quite something.
20 posted on
12/31/2025 7:51:16 PM PST by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: rlmorel
Yes, I read about her ‘nanosecond’ wires.
21 posted on
12/31/2025 7:54:49 PM PST by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: rlmorel
She look like “The Dragon Lady” who ran the Fresno MEPS when I joined the Coast Guard
22 posted on
12/31/2025 7:59:51 PM PST by
Organic Panic
('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
To: rlmorel
I got one of those wires from her
It probably got lost over the years 😔
29 posted on
12/31/2025 11:22:04 PM PST by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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