The document discusses the six women who worked on the ENIAC computer in the 1940s. Known as the "ENIAC Six", they were recruited through an advertisement seeking women for scientific and engineering jobs. The women helped program the ENIAC by setting its switches, since the computer had no memory and had to be manually configured for each calculation. Their contributions were initially overlooked, with the unveiling of ENIAC in 1946 implying the women were merely models. However, the ENIAC could not have been programmed and kept running without the crucial work of the pioneering ENIAC Six women.

1. The Women Critical To
The Development of
Modern Computing:
The ENIAC SIX

2. ‘Wanted: Women With Degrees in
Mathematics . . . Women are being
offered scientific and engineering
jobs where formerly men were
preferred. Now is the time to
consider your job in science and
engineering… You will find that
the slogan here as elsewhere is
‘WOMEN WANTED!’ Recruitment
ad for ENIAC, 1945.

3. For her 24-hour bubble in time, Moms travels back
to Philadelphia, 14 February 1945.
The day the ENIAC computer is unveiled.
Moms’s Mission: Valentines Day

5. ENIAC was formally introduced to the
public on the Fifteenth of February,
1946. The press called it the ‘Great
Brain’. The project was initiated by the
military in 1943 to design a machine
capable of rapidly calculating artillery
trajectories under a secret project
code-named Project PX
Who Were The ENIAC Six?

6. ENIAC could branch. Trigger
different operations depending on
the result of the previous operation.
That was a new development in
computing.
Who Were The ENIAC Six?

7. The ENIAC Six were computing
pioneers. The ENIAC didn’t have a
memory. It was essentially a bunch of
adding machines connected by cables.
It had to be programmed by hand to set
various tables of numbers. This came
down to setting 1,200 ten-way switches.
Something, apparently, no man had the
patience to figure out.
Who Were The ENIAC Six?

8. Who Were The ENIAC Six?

9. When ENIAC was introduced to the
press on 14 February 1946, it was
assumed the six women there were
models for the unveiling.
Who Were The ENIAC Six?

10. Who Were The ENIAC Six?

11. Without these six women, ENIAC
couldn’t have been programmed
and kept running.
Who Were The ENIAC Six?

12. Taken from Historical Women in Computing

13. What if those women had never done that job?
What if the ENIAC was destroyed?
Moms’s Mission: Valentines Day

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