I came across this clipping. As noted at the top, this was taken Tax Day 1966 at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi. Dad - Capt. Robert S. Weber - was attending communications school and looking forward to our move to Germany the following January where we lived in Wiesbaden. His job was going to be part of keeping communication going throughout American forces in Europe. He was very stressed at this school and actually spent a great deal of time cramming out in the camper trailer where he was not distracted by the squabbles of his children and honey-do lists that his wife might have wanted done.
After this we moved to Germany. In 1969 when the famous Walk on the Moon took place, we were on vacation and watching the telecast on a rented TV in France at a campground in France somewhere and listening to the commentary on Voice of America. He was holding his breath that during this historic event that the communications would not go down between England and the rest of Europe.
The above has this new fangled electronic printer that can print with speeds of 400 words per minute! Years afterwards my dad would talk about all his experience with early computers. He would marvel that we "put men on the moon with less computer power than in the watch on my wrist!." He loved technology and innovation. He was glad he lived to see the new millennium but would have loved to have been part of some high-tech wizardry somewhere. What a fun walk down memory lane!
Hopefully a little closer up for easier reading! Well - it wasn't very cooperative!
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