“Computers” – old style!

Way back in 1979, when I was a 14 year old school girl, Miss Jones came into maths class one morning with some exciting news. “Today we are going to program a computer to create a calendar, for 1980, and print it out.” OMG! Could we really do that? Could a computer calculate all the […]

Before it even started …

My first encounter with creative genius was my brother. He was 3 yrs younger than me. And, said the psychologist, at age 3 and a 1/2 had the mind of a six yr old. His talent was music so my parents bought him a ukelele. He played this with gusto. But as he grew he […]