Honouring a computing trailblazer
Letter of the week
Author: Dr Victoria Holt
Letter of the week
My mother died this June and I have since found a short story entitled A Computer Isn’t Everything, which she submitted to Woman’s Realm (which later merged with Woman’s Weekly). Mum must have submitted the story 60 years ago. She worked on the first computers in the UK in the 1950s, an amazing job for a female at the time. Seven months after leaving school in 1958, she started as an assistant experimental officer (AEO) at Aldermaston, a post she was referred to by her headmistress at Portsmouth...