1/ Naive standard history of computing ignores the role of women entirely beyond Grace Hopper, Ada Lovelace, Klari Von Neumann
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8/ What's remarkable about the early women was not the grunt work they endured, but the hacking at the edge of hardware and software.
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9/ This involved troubleshooting, improvising etc. to keep early unreliable machines working. This was hidden proto-hacking.
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