Mary Coombs
Programmer for the world's first business computer.
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Mary Coombs was a programmer for LEO, the Lyons Electronic Office that was the world's first business computer.
In this film she shares her inspirational story. Produced by Google as part of a series of short films highlighting women's involvement in the early days of computing.
“I was on the selection course and I was the only women of ten candidates; a few months later I was asked to join the division working on LEO computers. As it turns out I became the first female commercial computer programmer ”
Mary Coombs
Teaching Point: How significant was Mary’s gender during her selection for programming the LEO computer?
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