Catch and Halt Fire - Drama set in early days of persona - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 May 2014

From: "Ian S. King"<isking at uw.edu>

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 >
 >I've no doubt that women were in the minority in the computer biz in the
 >1980s (as they remain today).  I do take umbrage with Sellam's
 >supposition that there were no women at all with technical knowledge Kathleen
D. Morse wrote much of the unit-record IO drivers for
VMS, and then maintained them for some time.  They must have
started the VMS project in about 1975 to get the machine ready
to sell in 1978.  I know Kathleen was there for quite a 
while before
that, I THINK she was on the cover of one of the minicomputer
handbooks from DEC.  I spent quite some time reading her code
when hacking printer drivers and such.  If you searched the
VMS source code for her initials "KDM" I'm sure they appeared
many thousands of times on patch ID lines.

Jon