On 2/15/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
She carried in her pocket a piece of copper wire 186 miles long?  That
really _was_ hard core. :-)

Other than my post being completely wrong and totally inaccurate, I
was close.  She used to carry around nanosecond wires.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

186 miles of cable wouldn't been even MORE impressive though :-)

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