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  • During her lectures, “amazing” Grace Hopper used 1 foot long pieces of wire to illuatrate how far an electron travels in 1 nanosecond and said that 1 coil of 1,000 feet represents the distance an electron travels in 1 microsecond. These examples were used to explain that computer component size is related to speed.


    Posted on June 4, 2009 by Bob Podgorski .
  • COBOL is an anagram for BCOOL!


    Posted on May 22, 2009 by MOTU .

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