A former girl friend of mine became totally fascinated by the little 6909 based board I had built and was busy spending hours programming despite the fact she knew nothing of such things. I was amazed when she was asking for specific resistor values during a visit to our local electronics store, not for a circuit mind you but to get the right colors to make ear rings out of them.
Anyway, the next thing I know she has switched from studying literature and drama to mathematics and economics. In no time she had to leave me to go and get a degree in Maths. Last I heard she was programming the anti-lock braking systems for German trains.
Years later she told me that was all inspired by that little 6809 board and me trying to explain the hexadecimal input and output (It had a seven segment LED display) and what a program was.
I was heart broken. My one chance at having a geek companion for life and I let her slip away.
My one chance at having a geek companion for life and I let her slip away.
Wow. 'Truly poignant, Heater.
But look on the bright side: too much in common leads to competition; competition leads to strife; and strife begets a messy breakup. Or else her job takes her to D
On the other hand, she will leave you because "You spend more time thinking about computer than me." Machines are very good at making girls extremely jealous that way.
Strangely enough, today it's the other way around. "Her indoors" spends more time on FarmVille than thinking about me! Have to love here though, she can boss a Linux machine around in here stride.
She's no command line expert but for example years ago I came home to find my newly set up Linux box was printing something. What? How did you do that? In those days I might have reserved a whole day of fighting with Linux to get it to print anything. (Mind you that is still true to day, never buy a Cannon network printer for your Linux machine).
Turns out that in a former life as a product planner she used to bully the IT guys in a huge margarine factory to get their PDP11 based control systems to do things that they said "was impossible". Shame they did not have Propellers then.
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-Phil
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A former girl friend of mine became totally fascinated by the little 6909 based board I had built and was busy spending hours programming despite the fact she knew nothing of such things. I was amazed when she was asking for specific resistor values during a visit to our local electronics store, not for a circuit mind you but to get the right colors to make ear rings out of them.
Anyway, the next thing I know she has switched from studying literature and drama to mathematics and economics. In no time she had to leave me to go and get a degree in Maths. Last I heard she was programming the anti-lock braking systems for German trains.
Years later she told me that was all inspired by that little 6809 board and me trying to explain the hexadecimal input and output (It had a seven segment LED display) and what a program was.
I was heart broken. My one chance at having a geek companion for life and I let her slip away.
But look on the bright side: too much in common leads to competition; competition leads to strife; and strife begets a messy breakup. Or else her job takes her to D
On the other hand, she will leave you because "You spend more time thinking about computer than me." Machines are very good at making girls extremely jealous that way.
Strangely enough, today it's the other way around. "Her indoors" spends more time on FarmVille than thinking about me! Have to love here though, she can boss a Linux machine around in here stride.
-Phil
Turns out that in a former life as a product planner she used to bully the IT guys in a huge margarine factory to get their PDP11 based control systems to do things that they said "was impossible". Shame they did not have Propellers then.
with crystal of course
That's priceless.
C.W.