[PRCo] Re: Stuff That's Gone- West Penn Railways

[Derrick Brashear]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> I wonder how much of that was caused by the need for air flow with those old machines.
>
> I remember all the CPUs in Harrisburg for the unemployment claims operations ... they were later expanded to handle data keeping for the employment service.   They sat on a hollow floor with the air ducts under the floor.
>
> In the late 1970s and early 1980s I was the director of a statewide occupational information coordinating committee brought upon by the federal government's belief that that kids would make better career choices if they had better information.   That might have been partially true but there is also the reality that you can teach a man to work on power lines because he loves it but later on if his wife is paranoid every time he goes out in the rain or snow, he'll quit and you've wasted your time and money on him.

My wife has figured out that challenging me is a sure way to get me to
do something. "You can't do that!" "Oh really? Watch me"