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Happy Birthday! Thanks for writing :) I have to say, A Woman's Story[1] is a favorite of mine. It's incredible to hear about a woman overcoming such odds in
by Splines 14y ago
Happy Birthday!
Thanks for writing :)
I have to say, A Woman's Story[1] is a favorite of mine. It's incredible to hear about a woman overcoming such odds in an industry that still, 60 years later, has a gender gap. To discover that it's about your mother is just delightful.
[1] http://raganwald.posterous.com/a-womans-story http://raganwald.posterous.com/a-womans-story
- raganwald 14y agoThank you very much. I’m awed by how her story connected with people. She did so much amazing stuff considering the time and the place. Hackers here may be amused to know that through a friend of a friend from University, she heard that IBM had sold a computer to the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. She was hired on contract to go and help set it up, and as a single mother she took my sister and I and we moved to Nigeria from 1969-1971 or so. Needless to say, there were many challenges being a single professional woman living in a corrupt patriarchal post-colonial african country :-) Although the computers have changed (I remember seeing actual core memory at the University), the career probably sounds familiar to many readers here. Big install, travel to a customer’s site, &c.