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On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Bryan Sant wrote:
> Agreed, Grace Hopper was the bomb.  She used to carry around a length
> of copper wire in her pocket which she used to remind people that this
> was how far your data travels in one millisecond.  Hard core.

She carried in her pocket a piece of copper wire 186 miles long?  That 
really _was_ hard core. :-)

Chris