George W. Nelson - was a machine design engineer for Brown & Sharpe in Providence. He started in the B & S apprentice program and became a draftsman, but kept progressing on. He graduated high school in June 1932 in the middle of the Great Depression and work was hard to find. He had been a golf caddy (one who carried the golf bags of players) during high school at the Pawtucket Country Club. With no luck at job hunting he continued caddying to bring home money. One of the people he caddied for was a Rhode Island state senator. One day George asked him for some help with getting a scholarship to a state college. The senator invited my father to his office and gave him a scholarship and wrote on the edge of it - paid in full. My father attended college at night, fully paid and eventually became a machine design engineer. During World War II, a job came through called The Manhattan Project. My father tried to find out what it was, but didn't until the end of the war when the atomic bomb was dropped.
Bill Nelson - About 25 years ago, I started in the computer field with very ancient technology when judged by today's standards. The huge disk packs we used could hold 10 Megabytes, which is about .0001 of what today's average PC can hold. We could access 64 Kilobytes of memory for a program which is again about .0001 capacity of today's PC. Now with the new PCs people can make mistakes a lot faster than 25 years ago.