Something keeps telling me to share this with all of you. So here goes. In the 50s my grandpa worked on computers, programmed them. Clearly this was when they were huge and took up entire rooms. He died in 1975 when he was 41. Everyone that ever talks about him said he was brilliant. I don’t think he had a normal computer job at all. He and the family lived in lots of different places and often traveled for his job. One place in particular was Oklahoma. My grandma never told me exactly what he did. No one really knew. When my dad and uncle got close to school age he decided to come back to his home town and settle down. He got a job at the phone company as the lead communications expert. Apparently after he left he would get phone calls and been on for hours and would read off series of numbers (binary code?). The “phone company” would bring a company Bronco from up north every winter and give it to him to drive so he would not be stranded in the snow. There long windy country road (think very rural) would get plowed literally up to the driveway and that’s it. When he died he had a full military funeral not just the Veterans but supposedly had not served since the 50s. Oh and he used to take my dad to a mountain base for telephone work and my dad said he was allowed to go into off limit areas. My dad shared all this with me. I know this doesn’t have anything to do with Q but I wonder what he was working on. I also think I have a lot of him in me and that’s why I can see things like Q and not brush it off. Thanks for listening.
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Thank you for sharing. Certainly an interesting story - and life. I'm glad he inspired you for "the good."
Thank you for replying. I wish I could have met him but yes I am glad he inspired me as will.
You may have never met him, but he is with you just the same.
I enjoyed reading this, thank you.
Thank you for replying!
That is indeed a very interesting story, but I have nothing to add. Maybe try posting it in conspiracies.win, they might have something to add. Would be interested to see any guesses from people here or there!
I will. Thank you for the suggestion.
What a great story.
I did find this interesting, thanks for sharing!!
Thank you!
That would be awesome. I have tried searching but only was able to come up with a little about the base that no one knew when my dad went as a young boy.
I can say I first encountered computers in the late 1960s, and while they had input like punch cards and tape with numbers like 12345, to really manage the computers required programmers to "talk" in binary by flipping switches. Not too many could do that, your grandpa was very special and got computing off the ground, as it were.
Thanks for sharing love this kind of family history
That is awesome.