I ❤️ Margaret Hamilton

Adding your 1 cent worth to a false history of Hamilton is very sad. You pretend to know your history but that prior post failed to point out Hamilton did NOT write the code herself. By the way... for $10 on any printer anyone can have what you have in that folder, its not rare.

In the year 2000, I learned that the palm pilot of that era had more processing power than my Navy ship’s advanced AEGIS radar. I have a million pounds of respect for the ladies who helped put us on the moon. Zero respect for government technological progression, though. 😂

Written code on the right for the computer, Margaret Hamilton programming said computer. It was a big, tedious job which she accomplished flawlessly.

Women were vital in the early computer era because programming was initially viewed as routine, clerical "women's work". However, as software became lucrative and exclusive in the 1980s, industry culture rebranded programming as a prestigious, masculine pursuit, pushing women out and establishing the "male geek" stereotype. The shift in gender representation occurred in several distinct phases: - The Clerical Origins (1940s–1960s): Hardware engineering was considered the prestigious, "masculine" domain. Tedious, manual coding of vacuum tubes and punch cards was delegated to women, then called "computers". Women like the ENIAC Programmers and Grace Hopper established the very foundations of coding, compilers, and software. - Professionalization and Masculinization (1960s–1970s): As software's power was realized, computing became a high-status, well-compensated career. Professional associations and universities established strict, "engineering-style" educational requirements. This systematically sidelined women who previously entered the field through aptitude tests. - The Personal Computer Era (1980s Onward): In the mid-1980s, the percentage of women in computer science plunged. Early personal computers evolved into recreational "toys". They were marketed almost exclusively to boys and men, solidifying the cultural narrative that computers were for boys. Today, the systemic loss of representation—and the barriers women face in STEM—has been widely studied by organizations like the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT).

You actually look a lot like her so much so that I'm going to assume you're a vampire or a time traveler

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Oh sure, you could bring an iPhone to land on the Moon, but without an IMU, Hand Controller, Rendezvous Radar, Landing Radar, Telemetry Receiver, Engine Command and Reaction Control System I/O Ports, you're gonna have a bad day.

Margaret Hamilton did not single-handedly write the Apollo 11 Lunar Module software. She led the team at MIT that developed the Apollo onboard flight software and personally contributed portions of the code and its design.

Have you heard today's news that Margaret has passed on?

I just saw the news 😭💔

Totally would

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I, too, am a space nerd. 🤓 That is an amazing find you have there. 📁 You do closely resemble Margaret Hamilton. 📚 And yes, please cosplay her. 🚀

Margaret Elaine Hamilton (née Heafield; born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist. She directed the SED at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, where she led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo program.

I love space history, especially Apollo

Too bad nasa won’t give us the truth.