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I bet many of the wire-wielding programmers of the old IBM systems were women - a higher proportion in those days than today.
by auctiontheory 14y ago
I bet many of the wire-wielding programmers of the old IBM systems were women - a higher proportion in those days than today.
- ams6110 14y agoYep, the many miles of wire inside old mainframes and scientific computers (CDC, Cray, etc.) were all hand-soldered wire by wire, connector by connector, mostly by women. Must have been seen as requiring similar skills as sewing or weaving.