[Alas Babylon!]

I met Admiral Grace Hopper in 1985 at a private Pentagon computer-communications lecture (actually at the DIAC on Bolling AFB—see my profile). She gave me (and everyone) a piece of 24 gauge wire about 12 inches long.

That, she said, was the distance an electrical signal traveled in a nanosecond.

I still have it in my Nerd Shrine.

[Maine Mariner]

I remember her interview on Sixty Minutes many years ago.
She was at times very serios but at other times very funny.

[Magnum44]

See post 4, nerd! ;)