COMPUTER MEMORIES, Chapter 25

I WAS FAMOUS FOR SOMETHING
If I was famous for anything in my working years, it was for the ability to present the highly technical subject of computers, to people who knew little or nothing about computers. Most people I talked to and taught over the years, were very smart people, but most had never seen a computer, and knew little or nothing about what a computer was, or how it was to be programmed and used in real life. Remember, when I started in the business, there were no computers for sale, only a couple that were hand-built.

Since I did not have the technical education that some thought was important, I didn’t even know the technical words that would have confused the people I was trying to teach about computers. And of course the computer I was teaching about was never available for the students to see and use, sometimes it did not yet exist, except on blueprints.

Rumors of my “skills” reached the people at the local IBM Service Bureau, so I was invited to both earn and learn, working part time at that facility.