There were many more men than women in our profession ,and this is still the case. Regarding my own experiences, women were always in the minority and men were always in the majority. Women were always in the minority and men were always in the majority. When I asked him how he knew, he said ‘it no longer sounds like a seashore!’ Now, we had a new way to debug, using sound! When my program was running, it always sounded like the sound of waves on a beautiful seashore, so we all referred to it as the ‘seashore program.’ Until one night at 4 am in the morning when I got a call from one of the computer operators who said something terribly wrong has happened with your program.
The only information the computer provided to the developer for debugging his program was to light up a very large register on the console of the computer, showing the address where the program halted. Lights would be flashing, bells would be ringing and everyone, the developers and computer operators, would come running to find out whose program was doing something bad to the system. When the computer crashed during the execution of your program, there was no hiding.
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SAGE was one of the first jumping off points where I became interested in the subject of software reliability. The size of the computers I and others worked on before Apollo varied from being huge, taking up rooms of warehouse like space, to being quite large.
Hamilton at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 1962, when she was developing software for the SAGE system.