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Lore Harp McGovern built a microcomputer empire from her suburban home

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551 points adrianhon | 1 comments | 08 Apr 24 15:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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KingOfCoders ◴[08 Apr 24 16:35 UTC] No.39971397[source]▶
Also see “Steve" Shirley, she build a company of coders, women only [0], from the '60s on with remote first :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Shirley

[0] She hired all the female IBM coders who couldn't make a career at IBM

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rsynnott ◴[08 Apr 24 16:57 UTC] No.39971614[source]▶
Wait, how did remote first work in the 60s? Did they post in punchcards? TTYs weren't really much of a thing at that stage, were they?
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5555624 ◴[08 Apr 24 17:29 UTC] No.39971895[source]▶
Write the program down on paper, then type it in or punch cards.

Since I'm old, I remember writing FORTRAN -- it was all caps back then -- programs in my dorm room and then going down to the computer "room" and accessing the Dartmouth Time Sharing System to type it in and run it.

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1. abraae ◴[08 Apr 24 18:38 UTC] No.39972520[source]▶
We had a single apple II at our school. It was responsible for me failing most of my classes and getting into programming.

Since there was only a single machine, mostly we had to submit our code on cards. Not quite punch cards with chads but an optical equivalent when you marked the hole with a sharpie.