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		auctiontheory on April 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers... I bet many of the wire-wielding programmers of the old IBM systems were women - a higher proportion in those days than today.

ams6110 on April 18, 2013 [–]

Yep, the many miles of wire inside old mainframes and scientific computers (CDC, Cray, etc.) were all hand-soldered wire by wire, connector by connector, mostly by women. Must have been seen as requiring similar skills as sewing or weaving.

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