A flood damaged a fence on my parent’s farm. I helped my
dad clear and rebuild it. Poison ivy was everywhere. No need to worry, as I had
played in the stuff in elementary school. A just finished two year leave in Hawaii with the Agriculture Research Service (1966 - 1968) had changed things. What followed was a systemic reaction.
One recommendation was to keep cool and not sweat. I knew
where that could be found: the university library (65 degrees in summer and 85 degrees in winter) and with two new computer terminals. With an instruction manual in hand I learned to program the campus computer.
It was in the fall of 1981 that I first wrote my own scoring and analysis software. I had just returned from a two-year leave with the Environmental Protection Agency in Colorado. I learned what computers could do for the testing of pesticide applicators.
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