grok'ed it

[Shirley, Mark R]

Oldest Heinlein I read was the Heechee saga...  

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> From: Shannen Durphey [mailto:shannen at grolen.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 5:33 PM
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> Subject: Re: grok'ed it
> 
> 
> I'm not that old, but I know Heinlein.  I got into plenty of 
> trouble by being
> caught reading Heinlein (and Bradbury, and Asimov, and CS 
> Lewis, and whatever
> else I could find) when I was supposed to be doing 
> schoolwork.  I still remember
> "Oscar" the spacesuit.  I also remember the day I learned 
> that spacesuits don't
> need heaters like the pre-moon launch sci-fi writers believed.
> 
> At one time I had a huge collection of vacuum tubes.  I 
> wanted to build a
> computer, and all the books I was reading talked about vacuum 
> tubes in the
> computers, so I grabbed every tube I could find figuring I'd 
> eventually have
> enough.  Good thing I moved into car parts a few years later. 
>  Ida been no match
> for IBM.
> Shannen
> 
> 
> 
> Dave Williams wrote:
> > 
> > -> "grok" is used widely amongst techo's who've read SF in the
> > -> past, or have associated with SF fans.
> > 
> >  Heinlein, "Stranger In A Strange Land", 35 years ago.  
> "Just the other
> > day" to us geezer types.
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