Let's not forget how it started...
Because the six people responsible for setting up problems on the ENIAC
(the premiere general-purpose electronic digital computer built at the
University of Pennsylvania during World War II) were drafted from a corps
of human computers, the world's first professional computer programmers
were women, paving the way for careers in data processing as socially
acceptable for women in an era of gender roles. These six
computers-turned-computer-programmers were Kay McNulty
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Antonelli>, Betty Snyder
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Holberton>, Marlyn Wescoff
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlyn_Meltzer>, Ruth Lichterman
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Teitelbaum>, Betty Jean Jennings
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bartik>, and Fran Bilas
<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Spence>.
Cheers,
Dean
On 5/20/11 2:25 AM, "Bill Ross" <ross.cgl.ucsf.EDU> wrote:
>> [I *did* also enter machine code on the toggle switches of a PDP11, but
>>the
>> sequences were never very long, so I don't think that really counts.]
>
>I did some of that, and programmed a linked list in PDP11 assembly. It
>felt like I was entering the inner sanctum by speaking to the machine
>in its own language.
>
>They said the PDP could have been the Intel line if they had marketed
>it properly.
>
>Bill
>
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