Re: The Innovators

On 2015-03-01 17:02, Jed Donnelley wrote:
> cap-talk,
>
> I just finished reading "The Innovators" by Walter Isaacson:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/147670869X/
>
> You might know the author from his biographies of Albert Einstein and/or
> Steve Jobbs.  I really enjoyed this book and recommend it, particularly
> for anybody with any interest in technology, especially computer and
> communication technologies.
>
> Much of the book focuses on teams that complimented each other.  Just to
> share one anecdote that surprised me - all the earliest programmers were
> women.

PC History.

No they were not.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060813072159/http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1999/03/16feature.html

Ada was no more the first programmer than black slaves invented the 
electric light bulb.