Re: How noisy are the cooling fans?
"[...] work in both farming and computing industries? That's a first for me!"
Back in the late 1960s many programmers were young women. When they wanted to start a family it would previously have been expected that they would leave work for many years.
ICL's Hilary Cropper decided that she could employ them as part-time home programmers - now that Teletype devices on interactive services were starting to be available. So began the era of "Hilary's Pregnant Programmers".
There was at least one guy who joined that crew. He left full time programming to do dairy farming in Wales. He complained that a local manual exchange operator would sometimes disconnect his Teletype connection when she checked on the long-distance call's conversation - "because the line was making funny noises".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
