{"id":3373,"date":"2018-12-13T16:33:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Every-time-Im-tempted-to-complain-about-working-with-undocumented-software-I-remember-the-ENIAC-Six-six-women-who"},"modified":"2018-12-13T16:33:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:33:05","slug":"every-time-im-tempted-to-complain-about-working-with-undocumented-software-i-remember-the-eniac-six-six-women-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/12\/13\/every-time-im-tempted-to-complain-about-working-with-undocumented-software-i-remember-the-eniac-six-six-women-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Every time I&#8217;m tempted to complain about working with undocumented software I remember the ENIAC Six, six women who&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every time I&#8217;m tempted to complain about working with undocumented software I remember the ENIAC Six, six women who had to invent computer programming. Some scientists and engineers had built the first electronic computer, and hired these women (who were human &#8220;computers&#8221; along the lines of <em>Hidden Figures<\/em>) to run it. They had to basically teach themselves electrical engineering, take things apart that they weren&#8217;t supposed to touch, and talk to people they&#8217;d been told not to talk to in order to figure out how it worked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then they could start on the job they were hired for. (See the book <em>Broad Band<\/em> for more.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is another woman in the same mould. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Originally shared by Self-Rescuing Princess Society<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In an age when computers were in their infancy and few women were involved in their development, Berezin (pronounced BEAR-a-zen) not only designed the first true word processor; in 1969, she was also a founder and the president of the Redactron Corp., a tech startup on Long Island that was the first company exclusively engaged in manufacturing and selling the revolutionary machines.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Berezin joined the Electronic Computer Corp. in 1951 as the only woman in a shop of engineers in Brooklyn. &#8216;They said to me, &#8220;Design a computer,&#8221;&#8216; she was quoted as saying in the 1972 Times profile. &#8216;I had never seen one before. Hardly anyone else had. So I just had to figure out how to do it. It was a lot of fun \u2014 when I wasn\u2019t terrified.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/buff.ly\/2Lfjqyi<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Every time I&#8217;m tempted to complain about working with undocumented software I remember the ENIAC Six, six women who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-3373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity-and-representation","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}