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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: 0.212s | 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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dws ◴[08 Apr 24 17:07 UTC] No.39971699[source]▶
Coding forms, accumulated until someone had access to a keypunch.

Turnaround time could be days, which encouraged being very scrupulous when coding.

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1. EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK ◴[08 Apr 24 18:54 UTC] No.39972637[source]▶
I remember our group of students would chip in on flowers and chocolates for the girl who was punching the cards. Every mistake meant manually cutting new holes and mask taping the extra holes to arrive at the correct character.