NSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm. Grace Hopper

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https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Press-Release-View/Article/3884041/nsa-releases-copy-of-internal-lecture-delivered-by-computing-giant-rear-adm-gra/

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I’ve just started to watch part one. It’s worth watching the first five minutes just for her self-deprecating sense of humour.

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Her sense of comic timing is remarkable, too.

I’m trying to find any other reference to the “everything you wanted to know about microcomputers” book written for the Navy by someone named Slater that she talks about

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Interesting challenge!

Leland W. Slater, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About
Microcomputers,” Computopics . 3/82, pp. 38ff. (from here)
Slater, Leland W-, ETC. USN. Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Microcomputers, Naval Regional Data Automation Center, Norfolk, June 1982 (from here)

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The lecture also features her famous “nanosecond” demo with copper threads and wires.

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She also shows a microsecond, though she has only one of those.

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Aha - thanks to this HN thread, a copy has been procured, scanned, and uploaded!

The newly released video is a talk from 1982, it seems already that the Admiral is well-practised with the material. There’s a transcript (26 page PDF) of a 1985 version of the talk here

(For reference, there’s an HN thread on the newly released video here.)

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