Wirt Atmar writes:

>The girl in the picture is my wife, Valerie Atmar. This HP2116A was the very
>first HP computer I programmed....
>Valerie slept on the entomology lab bench for about eight hours
>while I entered the program.

That must really have bugged her.

>The program didn't actually do all that much.
>All it did was print onto the teletype, "Me Tarzan. You Jane" (which is
>Valerie's middle name).

That too, probably.

>What more romantic an evening could a girl ask for?

Well, as long as we're confessing, I did take my wife Vicki to HP CSY (or
whatever it was called in January, 1978) while on our honeymoon. We had a
romantic lunch in the company cafeteria, after which we picked up the
full HP3000 manual set I had ordered (all 11 volumes). We then set out on
a drive through the redwoods in the mountains south of Santa Clara. I
drove while Vicki read selected passages from the Instruction Set and
Intrinsics manuals.

N.B., for newlywed techies: I have been paying for this ever since.

-- Bruce
cc: Vicki


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