About a decade later, I'm not sure whether it was Gloria or Carl that told Bruce Waltke that I knew something about computers. I'm pretty sure that Bruce was writing yet another commentary on one of the books of the Bible. His publishers knew that he needed a fairly specialized word processor; one that could handle the Greek and Hebrew alphabet. And possibly some others. At that time this kind of specialized word processor cost about $20,000, and required you to add an extension onto your house to add a room to hold the word processor. I'm pretty sure that it was Bruce's publishers who were paying for the word processor. (I have no idea who was paying for the extra extension.)
So we went off to visit one of the only vendors in town who had one of these specialized monstrosities. We discussed his needs and the machine's capabilities.
During that afternoon he admitted to me that the year that he had taught me systematic theology was not his finest ever year of teaching. (Which I thought was pretty decent of him to admit.)
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