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		cperciva on March 28, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The largest computer ever built Given the time period in question, I think it's quite likely that all the people working on this project were men.

seanmcdirmid on March 28, 2013 | [–]

Unless your grandmother was Rear Admiral "Amazing" Grace Hopper?

cperciva on March 28, 2013 | | [–]

I did consider her, but during the period in question she was working at UNIVAC on compilers.

seanmcdirmid on March 28, 2013 | | | [–]

I was fighting the generalization, not the details.

auctiontheory on March 28, 2013 | [–]

Well, our grandmothers had to tolerate our grandfathers' faults. That's probably enough to ask.

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