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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!

Lisa Hirsch@lisairontongue.bsky.social

@histoftech.bsky.social Am obit of interest that you might have seen already. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...

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Stephanie Shirley, Who Created a Tech World for Women, Dies at 91

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I wrote about her and some of her company’s work in this chapter called “The Baby and the Black Box”: marhicks.com/writing/Hick...

Steve Shirley, Ann Moffatt, and co-worker Dee Shermer renting time on a mainframe, 1960s.
Photo courtesy of Ann Moffatt.
Black and white photo of three women behind a machine console.

Ann Moffatt writes software for the Concorde at her kitchen table as her baby daughter looks on. Moffatt's memoir, The IT Girl, details the story behind the photograph.
Photo courtesy of Ann Moffatt.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Anne Moffatt's memoir, The IT Girl, details the story behind the photograph with the baby—where Moffatt, then Technical Lead at Shirley’s company, Freelance Programmers, programmed the black box flight recorder for the Concorde

Figure 13-3. Ann Moffatt writes software for the Concorde at home on coding sheets on her kitchen table as her baby daughter looks on. Moffatt's memoir, The IT Girl, details the story behind the photograph.

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Surface Maximus @surfacemaximus.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

The cover of that is gorgeous!

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Yedong Sh-Chen @ydsc.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The baby and the black box. What a title!

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Chelsea @chelseasprite.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

She has a couple of great TED talks, too!

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