INDUSTRIA SEMPER CRESCAM = By industry will
I succeed (increase, accumulate)
INDUSTRIA SEMPER CRESCAM = By industry will
I succeed (increase, accumulate)
I, Skid Schermerhorn, started working with computers in 1955. That monster machine, a Sperry Rand UNIVAC, was so large that you could open a door and go inside to work on the wiring backboards. It had a memory of 1,000 words of 12 characters in length. This memory was used for instructions and input output areas. We initially programmed in machine language with usually two instructions per word. After 25 years of computer work, I retired and thought, never again would I play computer. About three years later my wife gave me a Commodore-64 and I was hooked. Naturally, I upgraded to a PC. My wife since 1949, is very tolerant of my keyboard activities.
Where does the name Skid come from? Not from Skidford. Before using the name Skid, I was called Sonny which is a bit better than Horace or Junior. My first girlfriend did not want to be know as having a boyfriend with the name of Sonny so she renamed me Skid without telling me why. Many years later, a few years ago, I met her and asked how she came up with that name. She could not recall how she did. I was telling my son about this and added a few bits of information. My father pronounced our name as though spelled Skimmerhorn, and thus was called Skimmie. The girlfriend's father always referred to me a Skimmie's kid, ergo, Skid.
03/04/2008