Herbie is the City College math department chairwoman's secretary. Herbie is also one of the funniest persons I've ever met. He always has a new twist on things, a joke for you. He sends e-mails to the department that are hilarious, they're really something. Herbie has an office which is completely covered in clutter. Figure dolls, newspaper clippings, magazines from 1967, you name it. You enter his office and you don't know where to look, there's interesting stuff everywhere. He even has some football helmets in a corner, maybe he knows why. But the best thing he has is this little wonder:
This is an acoustic coupler, i.e., a modem from the Stone Age, one of those where for the two computers to speak you had to put the phone handset on top of it, and they would communicate using beeps of different frequencies. Incredible.
