Sputnik was probably the greatest "life altering" event in my lifetime.

The anniversy is this week.

Two beeps every 90 minutes - the first satelite radio transmissions.

Berated by teachers for being the "generation that lost the space race" we, wide-eyed and bewildered accepted our failure and dutifully stood the place of "wipping-boys" for our teachers.

Three years later, I built my first computer, three transistors per unit, binary with a rotary-telephone-dial for input.

Digital Trad would have lagged without a shove on the butt from the Soviets.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

It changed my life - in undoubtably changed yours.