My Own Computer Room

by Lois H. Gresh


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I graduated from high school a year early, and hammering away at microbiology/genetics at night college, got a full-time job as a “library technician” at the National Institute of Health. For two years, I wrote biweekly medical newsletters, which I then formatted for publication using something called Keyword-in-Context (KWIC) programming on an IBM 360 mainframe.


(photo left – at 17 with my first computer terminal at the National Institute of Health)


To review the newsletters, I...

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Published on August 09, 2013 08:00
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