Mary Ellen Wilkes [1], one of the women featured in the NYT article, wrote several reports and papers about her work on the LINC laboratory minicomputer, includ

Mary Ellen Wilkes [1], one of the women featured in the NYT article, wrote several reports and papers about her work on the LINC laboratory minicomputer, including [2] and [3]. From [2]: "LAP6 is an online system running on a 2048 word LINC which provides full facilities for text editing, automatic filing and file maintenance, and program preparation and assembly. ... The small memory has had surprisingly little effect on the functional specification of the system ... and perhaps operated with a positive effect on the criterion of simplicity. Compromises were, of course, necessary, but we also found that operating features which may seem highly desirable, for example, to a professional in the computer field, can be so much excess baggage in an on-line applications environment. ..." [3] describes the ingenious virtual memory scheme: "An algorithm that runs on a 2048-word LINC provides efficient on-line editing of character strings virtually unlimited in length. Fixed-address LINC tape holds the character sequence in the manner of a scroll. Edited characters are spliced directly in or out of the scroll as it moves across a display scope under the viewer's control. A 512-character "playground" created at the splice point provides sufficient ease to permit changing the scroll contents dynamically..." 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Allen_Wilkes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Allen_Wilkes 2. "Conversational Access to a 2048-word Machine," Comm. of the Association for Computing Machinery 13, 7, pp. 407–14, July 1970. http://www.digibarn.com/stories/linc/documents/LINC-Mary-Allen-Wilkes/Conversational-Access-CACM-1970.pdf http://www.digibarn.com/stories/linc/documents/LINC-Mary-All... 3. "Scroll Editing: an on-line algorithm for manipulating long character strings," IEEE Trans. on Computers 19, 11, pp. 1009–15, November 1970. http://www.digibarn.com/stories/linc/documents/LINC-Mary-Allen-Wilkes/Scroll-Editing-Proc.-IEEE.pdf http://www.digibarn.com/stories/linc/documents/LINC-Mary-All...