On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, John J. Trammell wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:32:01PM -0600, smac at visi.com wrote:
> > First exposure to computing hmmmmmm.....
> > 
> > At one of the elementary schools I went to, think it was Gatewood in
> > Minnetonka.  One of the kids dads (who worked for Control Data) taught
> > us "The language of computers" binary, I thought "How cool is that, a
> > language no one can speak!"
> 
> Mine was similar--I was in Cub Scouts, and one of the kids' dads gave a
> demo on how to count in binary.  Been geeky ever since.

Sigh.  When I was in Cub Scouts, my dad was the guy who gave the example 
of counting in binary.

And I already knew how.

Sigh.

Brian



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