I don't know about this particular list, but there are many noteworthy women in
our hobby.
Here's a reference point: there are several female subscribers to my
newsletter, more than I can count out of memory.
Just last week, a woman (Katherine Wasserman, Ph.D.) was the focus of the main
article! Katie collects vintage calculators, many of which are computers of
course; she even has a 1947 Swiss follow-up version of the Enigma machine.
She's got ** 300 ** pieces -- almost 400 if you count the replicas.
And what about Jeri Ellsworth? She's not active on this list, but she can
out-engineer Commodore stuff (and who knows what else) better than almost
anyone, whether they're boy, girl, or space alien.
Also, women are a huge segment of the vintage gaming hobby.
--- Glen Goodwin <acme_at_gbronline.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
> To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 4:58 AM
> Subject: Re: Got a HP 2648. Now what?
>
>
> > On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 20:52 -0800, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> > > On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Tom Jennings wrote:
> > >
> > > > > I'll keep going:
> > > >
> > > > So. Are there any women (left) on this list? Hmm... I wonder why.
> > >
> > > There used to be one. She no longer is with us here. I think she more
> > > got fed up with the general unruliness of the list more than anything.
> >
> > Was that Alison? I remember the name from the list way back and wondered
> > what had happened to her, she seemed pretty clued-up on things.
>
> There were two whom I recall -- Allison Parent and Megan Gentry.
>
> Allison left during the Great Flame War which resulted in the cctech/cctalk
> split. A terrible loss to the list (IMHO) -- she knows a *lot* about CP/M
> as well as design-level electronics.
>
> I haven't seen a post from Megan in at least six months -- another huge
> loss to the list, as she has a tremendous amount of knowledge of all
> things DEC.
>
> Sad.
>
> Glen
> 0/0
>
>
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