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November 1996, Week 4

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Re: Grace Hopper, the destroyer ;-)
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Steve Ellis <[log in to unmask]>
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Steve Ellis <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 27 Nov 1996 00:26:29 -0600
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In article <[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] writes:

>From page 102 of Computerworld, November 18:

>       "On Nov. 1, the Navy invited reporters aboard the future
>        USS Grace Hopper[...]."

>The tidbit goes on to say that the ship, an AEGIS-class destroyer,
>will be commissioned next year.

That seems overwhelmingly appropriate. She was a remarkable woman.

I had the rare privilege of meeting both Grace Hopper and Alfredo
Rego on the same day, at a user's group meeting in south Texas in (ifirc)
1979. I still have that nanosecond she gave me.

Steve Ellis

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