Kitty started her career as a system programmer at Digital Equipment Corp (DEC), working on the MUMPS system, then worked at number of financial institutions and eventually ran her own web design business (see https://www.openskywebdesign.com).

While doing all that she was also a world class bridge player and genealogist.

You can visit her web site: http://kittycooper.com/

Marc Cohen is a software engineer who worked for many years at Google, Bell Labs and Lucent. He left Google in 2024 and now is a part time teacher in London - teaching Python and AI.

Marc write a regular blog, which you can fine here: https://mco.dev/.

For future software engineers Marc gave a talk on how to handle a technical interview, as he was an interviewer at Google. Check it out: Tech Interviews: What to Expect Tips and Tricks

As mentioned in the episode, David learned to program as a teenager on a Olivetti programable calculator. Take a look at this page to see what it looked like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma_101

This is the first episode of "Computing... There I was". It's a conversation Eric Mintz, a software engineer recently retired from Google.

Turns out Eric made a small mistake, the language he first programmed in was called CORC - Cornell Computing Language.

For those that would like see what keypunch looked and sounded like check out this video.

Finally, any questions or suggestions pleas email me at richieb@gmail.com with subject "Computing... There I Was".

This is a short introduction to the podcast by your host. You can always write me at richieb@gmail.com. Please include "Computing...There I was" in the subject line.