Just to clear up the portion on Vietnam - only volunteers were sent there
by the NZ Army.
Tours of Duty for the rifle companies that went, was pretty much only 1
year.
Small point I suppose but important
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:08:45 +1300, Richard Naylor
At 10:43 a.m. 11/02/2011, Donald Neal wrote:
This may not seem relevant to InternetNZ members today, but Ken Olsen came from the post-war generation of Engineers that gave us the computer industry and the Internet. As did Richard Naylor (albeit perhaps post a slightly different war). And without talking about snake oil.
A child of the 60's. Over beer (to stay on topic) we can talk about turning 18 and having your birthdate in a "lottery" where the prize was a 2 year holiday in Vietnam courtesy of the NZ Army. Also about core memory machines and using logic analysers to debug DDCMP protocol at 2Mbps - looking at the bits coming out of the de-serialiser, byte at a time. But as I said, needs beer.
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