RIP: Betty Holberton

From: Marvin Johnston <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Wed Dec 12 09:28:48 2001

I was at an Orienteering meet this past weekend and got to talking with
a woman I met a year or two ago. Turns out she was also a programmer and
I think she said she had also worked with the Eniac. She is coming up
either today or tomorrow. Seems like a good time to "cross examine" her
:). I have found several people who had worked on the older computers,
usually after they have died :(.


Dave McGuire wrote:
>
> On December 12, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:
> > One of the coolest moments in my life was when I met, entirely by chance,
> > an old lady at the local hospital that was one of the early Real
> > Programmers. She was sharing a double-bed room with my girlfriend's
> > grandmother.
> >
> > I believe she said she had worked with the ENIAC, but I am not certain.
> > She said that when she retired, video display terminals were just
> > beginning to supplant printing terminals. There was a whole conversation
> > in there somewhere, but unfortunately it has been forgotten in the sands
> > of time.
> >
> > Nevertheless, it was a truly spiritual experience.
>
> WOW...I would love to have talked with her for an hour or two. Or
> three. Maybe four.
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