Anna K. Jonsson » ENIAC http://annakjonsson.com UX Designer and Daydreamer Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:49:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A series of tubes http://annakjonsson.com/2008/01/21/a-series-of-tubes/ http://annakjonsson.com/2008/01/21/a-series-of-tubes/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:34:53 +0000 Anna http://serialanna.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/a-series-of-tubes/ A great story about one of the first female computer programmers, A Technical Camelot. I think I may have seen Jean’s image, standing next to the ENIAC when I was taking my computer history classes as an undergraduate. In class I learned that women did most of the programming– they were presented as, like, secretaries of the machine (hardly!).

But Jean articulates her experience much better than I could. This was a great piece of nearly lost history to come across.

The podcast comes from American Public Media’s The Story.

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