Susan Hamilton:  

So, I went to OSU, got married & moved to FLA in 1977. Got divorced (and annulled), came back to Cols briefly to finish my degree (BS in Mathematics, 1981). Went back to FLA & started working at a small computer software company. We did real-time systems. By 1985, our operating system had a 3% share of the US real-time market! For explanation: you know how there are computers inside everything now? Somebody has to write that software, and that was us. We were in satellite data networks, industrial printing presses, lots of manufacturing machine tools, a particle accelerator, telephone networks -- if you went to the grocery store in Ohio during the '90s, you probably used my software. I also designed & gave a one-week user training class for our software (mostly in the US, but also in Chile!). Chile was fantastic! I got to be there in 1989 for their first election (since the coup in 1973). None of the people I knew there had ever voted. They had a practice election at work, and (since I was from the US) I got to be the "international observer" for their pretend election, hehehe. In 1990, I left the company & went to Chile for 6 months, staying with friends & touring around. Yes, I learned...Expand for more