[Mgs] Time to brag a little...

[Dan DiBiase]

It's changed quite a bit. I've been with IBM for 29 years. Hard to believe.

Rick, congrats! Glad to hear your son was able to find a job in this economy. My son is finishing up his freshman year at the University
of Delaware. I feel like that's a major accomplishment! He's an environmental engineering major, so hopefully there will be something
for him when he's done in '12.

 Dan D
Central NJ USA
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From: Paul Root <ptrmgb at gmail.com>
To: The Roxter <rocknatural at gmail.com>
Cc: MGS <mgs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:20:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Mgs] Time to brag a little...

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