FWIW,
The Radio story was the five-minute introduction to the book
"When Computers Were Human" by David Alan Grier.
The author tracked down survivors stories from math
workers before 1945. Sounds like he found out
a lot about how people lived their careers before the
Univac, etc took over. A book to check out at the store.
John A.
No affiliation with anybody mentioned, NPR, etc.
re:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691091579
or
Amazon.com, or "In Living Color",