[Mgs] Time to brag a little...

[Paul Root]

Congratulations Rick, and to your son.

Rocky, I just can't see you at IBM. I served time at IBM in Kingston  
as a contractor in the late 80s. As buttoned down as it was then I  
just can't image how it was in the 60s.

On May 11, 2009, at 12:09 PM, The Roxter wrote:

> Rick Lindsay wrote:
>> In fact, YES!  His first car was a '79 MGB LE that had been under  
>> 12 feet of
>> water.  We rebuilt everything.  And when he got his first  
>> internship at the
>> Langmier Atmospheric Physics Lab, the first thing that they asked  
>> him was if
>> he had ever worked on cars!  Seems that most kids today have never  
>> touched a
>> wrench/spanner.  He got the job.
>>
>> rick
> Same thing they asked me when I went to work for IBM in 1966. All  
> the whiz kids were trained on computers, but they hired about ten  
> new guys to fix the card machines that provided all the input in  
> those days. Those things had really exotic components like geneva  
> drives and such. I was hired because I was building my own racing  
> cars (MGs and Minis) and finishing races.
>
> -The Roxter
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