In 1946, a secretary named Betty Snyder and five other women were handed the wiring diagrams for ENIAC and told to program it with no manuals and no instructions, and the ballistic trajectory calculation they got running became the first working software ever demonstrated on a general-purpose electronic computer
In 1946, six women at the Moore School of Engineering were handed the wiring diagrams for ENIAC and told to program it without manuals. The ballistic trajectory they got running became the first working software ever demonstrated on a general-purpose electronic computer — and the…