One of the great things about forums like this is there bringing to-gether of like minded people and recently we have had another good example.
I'm interested to hear of others experiences about unlikely coming to-gethers.
I was quite suprized for example a couple of years ago when after being cut off by flood waters myself and Howard ACT were forced to strike out on a 65km uncharted run down the wrong side of Eyre creek and after days in the bush we popped out at a crossing and the first human we came across was Stephen L , whom I'd never meet, paddling in the creek.
But last week we had another amazing co-incidence.
This was prompted by a post by IdlerChris about a GPS problem, I provided some
feedback and Chris thought he'd follow up with me.
Months ago Muzbry and I began a Coffee club to get Exploroz Oz'ers together and this proved to be just the venue to discuss it further and Chris came along for the first time.
We all had a great 3hr discussion and went
home, but something kept nagging Chris.
Then after several days he woke up at 3am and the penny had dropped.
He sent me an email along the lines of "Were you at Astor/Philips in 1967 "
I was, and I was amazed.
47 years ago Astor (Radio Corporation - now Philips) embarked on a brave venture.
They brought what we believe was the first of a new invention, it was called a Computer.
An IBM mainframe model 360/30 with a sizzling 16,000 bytes of ferrite core memory.
This machine cost a staggering $1,000,000 dollars and thems 1967 dollars.
Chris and I joined the company at about the same time and worked on the project one floor apart without ever knowing each other, me Engineering and he Finance.
We crossed paths several times over the next 20 years but still never really got to know each other until the Exporoz meeting and subsequent contacts just last week.