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There is a recent documentary about the ENIAC programmers, at http://eniacprogrammers.org/ http://eniacprogrammers.org/ . I've only just now learned of it, so c
by dalke 11y ago
There is a recent documentary about the ENIAC programmers, at http://eniacprogrammers.org/ http://eniacprogrammers.org/ . I've only just now learned of it, so can give no more than a pointer.
Another of the 6 was Betty Holberton. She was recently mentioned in a recent HN link to http://www.filfre.net/2015/12/a-pirates-life-for-me-part-1-dont-copy-that-floppy/ http://www.filfre.net/2015/12/a-pirates-life-for-me-part-1-d... :
> The first programmer ever to attach a notice of copyright to her program, and thus quite likely the first programmer ever to conceive of her program as a potentially marketable creative work, was Betty Holberton, one of the original programmers of the ENIAC, by some definitions the world’s first true computer. In 1951, she was proud enough of a sorting program she had written to attach her name to a copyright notice included therein