20 Jun
2018
20 Jun
'18
11:10 a.m.
On Sat, 16 Jun 2018, Doug McIlroy wrote:
Ah, the Williams tube. Was that not the one where women clerks (they
weren't called programmers) wearing nylon stockings were not allowed
anywhere near them, because of the static zaps thus generated? Or was
that yet another urban myth that appears to be polluting my history file?
How said women were determined to be wearing nylons and thus banned, well.
I have no idea... Hell, even a popular computer weekly in the 80s used to
joke that "software" was a female computer programmer; I'm sure that Rear
Admiral Grace Hopper (USN retd, decd) would've had a few words to say
about that sexism...
-- Dave
jay forrester
first described an invention called core memory in a lab
notebook 69 years ago today.
Core memory wiped out competing technologies (Williams tube [...]