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• Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace, 1815-1852 and Charles Babbage's Difference Engine: View 1, View 2.

• Portable Calculator Carried by Young Woman, 1920s?
  (Source: Burroughs Corp. Records collection at the Charles Babbage Institute)

• Bookkeeping machine with woman at desk, 1930's
  (Source: Burroughs Corp. Records collection at the Charles Babbage Institute)

• ENIAC with Betty Jennings and Frances Bilas arranging the program settings on the master programmer (1946)
  (Source: Burroughs Corp. Records collection at the Charles Babbage Institute)

• U.S. Army photo of two women wiring the ENIAC with a new program
  (Source: Mike Muus's Historic Computer Images site.)

• Closeup of ENIAC printer, constant transmitter, and the associated IBM equipment Betty Jennings, at the left, is inserting a deck of cards containing initial data on which the ENIAC will operate, and Frances Bilas, at the right, is removing a set of cards which represent the result of the preceding computation (1946).
  (Source: Burroughs Corp. Records collection at the Charles Babbage Institute)

• "U.S. Army Photo", number 163-12-62 Photo from Patsy Simmers. Left: Patsy Simmers, holding ENIAC board Next: Mrs. Gail Taylor, holding EDVAC board Next: Mrs. Milly Beck, holding ORDVAC board Right: Mrs. Norma Stec (Gladys Rugh?), holding BRLESC I board.
  (Source: Mike Muus's Historic Computer Images site.)

• "U.S. Army Photo" Photo from K. Kempf, "Historical Monograph: Electronic Computers Within the Ordnance Corps." Left: Gail Purdham/Beck/Taylor (Mrs. Don Taylor) Right: Loyd Campbell.
  (Source: Mike Muus's Historic Computer Images site.)

• "U.S. Army Photo" Photo from K. Kempf, "Historical Monograph: Electronic Computers Within the Ordnance Corps." The ENIAC, in BRL building 328. Left: Glen Beck Right: ?
  (Source: Mike Muus's Historic Computer Images site.)

• Poster announcing Sylvania's acquisition of a UNIVAC I by Sylvania (early 1950's)

• Milwaukee Math Experiment, Pious IX High School, 1954
  (Source: Burroughs Corp. Records collection at the Charles Babbage Institute)

• Grace Murray Hopper: a Civilian Portrait and a Portrait in Uniform and the first Computer Bug

• 1994 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing -- the Poster

• Girl using mother's computer in 1993 film "Sleepless in Seattle"

• Girl using computer to save the day in 1993 film "Jurassic Park"

• Pictures from the movie, "The Net," starring Sandra Bullock

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