Physically, Dorothy and the West Computing office had never been closer to the high-speed future. As the laboratory embraced the onset of the space age, the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel would remain one of the busiest hubs of the center, testing “nearly every supersonic airplane, missile, and spacecraft” that saw the light of day over the next two decades. But in terms of the center’s computing operations, Dorothy’s pool now existed on the periphery.
