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Gaer Boy
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Interesting obituary - Mary Coombs

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The Guardian obituary of Mary Coombs, " the first woman in the world trained to program a computer for business applications", gives an interesting view of the early days of business computing. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... s-obituary

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That is interesting, thanks.
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ya i saw it but did not have time to fully look at it. thanks!
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An extremely fascinating youtube vid from Veritasium on the history of computers from an historical standpoint. He has a follow-up vid about the future of computing itself but I never get too excited about videos of the "future" so will not be watching that one.
https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=IgF3OX8nT0w (20m)
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BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) has obituary of Mary Coombes in "Last Word" programme; https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015bbn.
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The Guardian also published an interesting obituary for Clive Sinclair. Can be accessed through Gaer Boy's link for Mary Coombs.
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