Fort Meade? Not everyone living near there worked at Fort Meade! Fort Meade is east, across the street, the Baltimore Washington Parkway, from Laurel, MD, and

Fort Meade? Not everyone living near there worked at Fort Meade! Fort Meade is east, across the street, the Baltimore Washington Parkway, from Laurel, MD, and my wife and I lived there. I worked at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL) in the group that did the calculations for the Navy's version of the USAF's GPS, well before the GPS. But my work was in the fast Fourier transform, power spectral estimation, etc. of passive sonar signals. Mostly I was writing PL/I code for the 360/91, 60 ns cycle time, 8 byte wide, 16 way interleaved main memory. So, not everyone in that area worked at Fort Meade!