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Glendale Studios
Distance: 7.5 Mi1239 S Glendale Ave
91205 Glendale -
Southern Hemisphere Representation
Distance: 45.3 Mi17880 Sky Park Cir Ste 250
92614-6444 Irvine -
Ubercool Inc.
Distance: 334.2 Mi172A Connecticut St
94107-2415 San Francisco
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EXECUTIVE FOR A DAY In 1967, Craig was selected by his high school to participate in a Bell Telephone Company program called ''Telephone Executive Leader for a Day.'' He spent the day shadowing the CEO of Bell Telephone in Quincy, Massachusetts. Two top students were selected, one male and one female. I was assigned to shadow the CEO and learn what it was like to be an executive. The other student, a very intelligent and capable young woman, was not given an executive assignment, but was assigned to be a secretary - just because she was a female! And, in those days, no one thought that was odd or unfair! - CJ While touring the company, I heard a loud ripping sound. It was a computer printer, called a ‘chain printer.’ Its print hammers were hitting the paper so fast that it sounded like cloth being torn apart. The paper was flying out the back of the printer so fast it had to be caught in a wire cage. The printer grabbed my interest, and so did the computer it was attached to it: an IBM 7070 . - CJ IBM 7070 - 0.028MHz CPU with 50,000 bytes of memory [