Settling Down In Frascati
Posted On Thursday, December 12, 1991 at at 6:36 PM by AlvinI have hardly the appropriate words to describe the "first generation" of my co-workers other than we seemed to have been assembled from the Frankenstein Factory - full of odd parts. Luckily, I have settled down in my job with fair ease and enjoyed it very much.
I was tasked with looking after part of a computer operations that included running a data transcription chain from raw satellite media to optical discs and it was this project that led me to meet my best friend, Fabio. We worked on the European X-Ray Satellite (EXOSAT) operation and became great company although my Italian and his English did not go beyond a "ciao" in the morning, a lot of hand gestures, nodding and computer screen pointing but we always had a full smile. Here's Fabio, Roberta and Gianmarco with us.
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