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Hi all. I've got an older #computer running #Windows10, and I'm thinking about putting #Linux on it since I've always wanted to try it out and think this computer might run better with Linux. I read a topic on audiogames.net about Linux #accessibility, and I saw a few recommendations for #distros to try out. To any #blind Linux users, is #NixOS a good one for a beginner, or should I try #LinuxMint or #Ubuntu? Also, what's the best way to install Linux and replace #Windows? Thanks.
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Found a file in one of my archive folders that was last modified by me on 24.04.04. Goodness.

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"The Computer Girls", published in Cosmopolitan magazine in April 1967 was originally brought back to public attention during @nensmeng's research for his book "The Computer Boys Take Over". For years only the first page was available online. Now the full article has emerged: https://archive.org/details/the-computer-girls-cosmopolitan-magazine-april-1967

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The Computer Girls... States already, and the computer industry is growing fast, there'll soon be another twenty thousand. (But don’t get the idea that programming is an all-female field. For every computer girl, there are eight computer men.) Every company that makes or uses computers hires women to program them. If a girl is qualified, she’s got the job. There’s no sex discrimination in hiring. The girl with a college degree in math, physics or engineering can start off her computing career — as a trainee — at eight thousand dollars a year. Depending on her ability and ambition, she can work her way up the “computer ladder” to be a senior systems analyst at twenty thousand dollars a year or more. (Just look at the Sunday want ads for an idea of the pay scale.) But the field isn’t closed to the girl with a general education — or to the girl with no college training. Women are found at all levels of work involving computers — from key punching the machine cards to systems analysis (a highly skilled job that requires full knowledge of how computers can solve any given problem). Most computer girls “program.” They design the solutions to specific problems and write the step-by-step instructions that tell the computers what to do. Let’s meet a few. Sally Brown, for one, is a redhead from South Bend, Indiana, who was a stenographer for a Chicago insurance company. When the insurance company put its data on computers, Sally was trained by the computer company to write her...
The Computer Girls are also private data-processing schools that charge up to five hundred dollars for a six- to twelve-week course. “These private schools vary in quality,” says Stuart Longworth, Univac’s manager of employee services. “People invest their time and money in these quickie courses and expect to get a high-paying job in programming when they're through. But they haven’t learned that much. You need on-the-job experience. Programming is something you have to work with.” Although they do hire a number of already-trained programmers, each of the computer manufacturers trains its own people as well as the programmers who work for its customers. The training is on an earn-as-you-learn basis. “I’d never consider paying for my own training when I can get someone else to pay for it,” says a girl who’s learning to use Honeywell equipment. Yet some people prefer to take an introductory course in programming before applying for a job — just to make sure they'll like the work. What about the chances of meeting men in computer work? The field is overrun with males. According to figures from the data-processing journals and the Data Processing Management Association there are some twenty thousand computer girls and one hundred sixty thousand computer men! Why so few women in the industry? “How many women have heard about it?” asks James M. Adams, Jr., director of education for the Association for Computing Machinery. “Many of the programming jobs require a math...
The Computer Girls by Lios Mandel A trainee gets $8,000 a year ...a girl "senior systems analyst" gets $20,000 — and up! Maybe it’s time to investigate.... Ann Richardson, IBM systems engineer, designs a bridge via computer. Above (left) she checks her facts with fellow systems engineer, Marvin V. Fuchs. Right, she feeds facts into the computer. Below, Ann demonstrates on a viewing screen how her facts designed the bridge, and makes changes with a "light pen." Photos by Henry Grossman. Dress by Gino Charles Twenty years ago, a girl could be a secretary, a school teacher ...maybe a librarian, a social worker or a nurse. If she was really ambitious, she could go into the professions and compete with men usually working harder and longer to earn less pay for the same job. Now have come the big, dazzling computers — and a whole new kind of work for women: programming. Telling the miracle machines what to do and how to do it. Anything from predicting the weather to sending out billing notices from the local department store. And if it doesn’t sound like woman’s work — well, it just is. (“I had this idea I’d be standing at a big machine and pressing buttons all day long,” says a girl who programs for a Los Angeles bank. I couldn’t have been further off the track. I figure out how the computer can solve a problem, and then instruct the machine to do it.” “It’s just like planning a dinner,” explains Dr. Grace Hopper, now a staff scientist in systems programming for Univac.

The Computer Girls Cosmopolitan Magazine (April 1967) : Lois Mandel, Henry Grossman : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The complete Cosmopolitan article, originally rediscovered by Nathan Ensmenger.
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