
A Grasshopper in Tall Grass: Chapter 3
Lost Women of Science
The Code Paradise
Clara's job was to look up and write down codes, numbers that corresponded to specific instructions for the computer. These codes were then loaded into the eniac by turning switches on the function tables. The programm a coder wrote and set up on the eniac could instruct the machine to do several things on its own.
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