From walt@swcp.com Mon May 12 18:59:04 1997 Received: from slug.swcp.com (slug.swcp.com [198.59.115.24]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA28152 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 18:58:57 +0200 Received: (from walt@localhost) by slug.swcp.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id KAA09036 for SC22WG5@dkuug.dk; Mon, 12 May 1997 10:58:53 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 10:58:53 -0600 (MDT) From: Walt Brainerd Message-Id: <199705121658.KAA09036@slug.swcp.com> To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: Betty Holberton For those of you who want to see the material on the WITI site about Betty Holberton, I did not find it where we were told, but at http://www.witi.com/Center/Offices/Witinews/Hall A couple of items of trivia for those who remember (or might be interested anyway). The above page contains some info about the ENIAC. A Professor Brainerd was chair of the EE Department at Penn during those days. The article says Betty was chair of the Cobol standards committee, but says nothing about her work on the Fortran standards committee. A story I was told was that Betty invented the "read ring" for tapes. Others obviously felt that the "write ring" was the way to go! Walt Brainerd walt@fortran.com Unicomp, Inc. +1-505-797-8989 797-3251 (fax) 2 San Rafael Ave NE, Suite C +1-500-Fortran (367-8726) Albuquerque, NM 87122 USA http://www.fortran.com/fortran