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From: sri-unix!maslak@decwrl.dec.com (Valerie Maslak)
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Subject: Re: women.wizards
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Date: 3 Aug 88 18:42:44 GMT
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OK, now I know it's "our" Cheryl come back to the net.
Welcome back, Cheryl!!!!

Cheryl notes that women were "computers" who did manual calculations
and were kept on the ground floor of science.
In the year 1968, at MIT, as the wife of a student, I worked at the
Instrumentation Lab (now Draper Lab) doing low-level programming and data
compilation, and my job title was indeed "Junior Computer."
Those were the days of keypunch and batch processing...
anyone remember job cards?

Valerie Maslak