11-15-96. WaJo: "History of Software Begins With the Work Of Some Brainy Women" The Army called the women "computers." One day word spread that the brightest "computers" were needed to work on a new machine called the Eniac, setting dozens of dials and plugging a ganglia of heavy black cables into the face of the machine, a different configuration for every problem -- "programming," they came to call it. "The Eniac," says one woman, now 71, "was a son of a bitch to program." ----- http://jya.com/abitch.txt (6 kb) ABI_tch