[Elecraft] OCF antennas-Now way off Topic

[Don Wilhelm]

Yes, I was a freshman in 1959 and while I never met Don Knuth, I heard 
plenty of stories about him.  He was given free reign of the new 
computer center.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 3/11/2012 1:52 AM, Pete Michaelis - N8TR wrote:
> Don,
>
> When I started work at NASA's Lewis Research Center in the early 60's
> we often went to seminars at Case.  Local legend had it that in one of
> Dr Green's classes he presented a research problem that he himself
> was working on and told the class that anyone solving it would be
> awarded a master's degree along with his BS.  Donald E Knuth
> (author of the famous "The Art of  Computer Programming" series of books)
> was in the class and solved the problem ( and got his BS&  MS in 1960).
> Did that happen while you were there?  I know that this is way off topic but I
> have always been curious if that actually occurred.
>
> 73 Pete - N8TR
>
> At 08:40 PM 3/10/2012, Don Wilhelm wrote: