In 1973 few people, even at AT&T, had an always-on, interactive connection to a computer. Indeed, a lot of those machines were batch, not interactive. Even programmers would get a printout of the last run, along with errors, and go back to their desk to debug, then book time on the card machine or (if lucky) a terminal (as in ASR-33 printing terminals; there were a few video terms, but something like the DEC VT-52 hadn't been introduced and the VT-100 wasn't on the drawing board) to do the next iteration.
A decade later, when I was spending quality time in data centers, casual misogyny was still the norm.
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In 1973 few people, even at AT&T, had an always-on, interactive connection to a computer. Indeed, a lot of those machines were batch, not interactive. Even programmers would get a printout of the last run, along with errors, and go back to their desk to debug, then book time on the card machine or (if lucky) a terminal (as in ASR-33 printing terminals; there were a few video terms, but something like the DEC VT-52 hadn't been introduced and the VT-100 wasn't on the drawing board) to do the next iteration.
A decade later, when I was spending quality time in data centers, casual misogyny was still the norm.
Misogyny? We loved Raquel! Old dinosaur here.