On 28 August 2008 16:40, tedd advised: > > I'm really not that old, I wrote my first line of code in college in > 1965 -- I even remember the problem. It was how long a swimming pool > would take to drain to a trickle with the drain open and a garden > hose filling it. Of course, we were given all the data to solve it, > but it was more an adventure in keypunching than programming. > > Considering that I never took a deferment for college, I was drafted > in 1966. I didn't even know what Vietnam was -- at the time. Ha! You beat me by about 10 years, then -- in 1966, I was a "strange English kid" attending 4th grade at a School in Santa Monica, CA. (My dad was in a group of engineers seconded to his company's Los Angeles parent for a year, and the company paid for families to go too, lucky us ;) Lots of memories and odd stories -- I think my favourite is one my dad told for many years afterwards about his first few days in the drawing office where they worked mainly in pencil, and the shock on the face of the prim elderly secretary when he raised his head and asked, in all innocence, if anybody had "a rubber"!!! And one complete non-memory -- as I was in the US for the summer of 1966, I had no idea the England football team had won the world cup until long after we returned to the UK in 1967. And I'm convinced that a year's acclimatization to California climate, conflicting with native British reflexes, accounts for my body's strange reaction to exactly 68 degrees Fahrenheit!!!! Cheers! Mike -- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Developer, C507, Leeds Metropolitan University, Civic Quarter Campus, Woodhouse Lane, LEEDS, LS1 3HE, United Kingdom Email: m.ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tel: +44 113 812 4730 To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://disclaimer.leedsmet.ac.uk/email.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
