So far, with rare exception , the focus of our computing history series has been on technology—the machines that broke new ground and the people behind them. Joyce Wheeler and Margaret Marrs talk about their time using EDSAC at Cambridge, and Mary Coombs tells of programming LEO , the world’s first business computer. And in a fourth brand new film, Dame Stephanie Shirley shares her extraordinary tale of founding Freelance Programmers , one of the UK’s first software startups. Vaughan Programming Services founded by another pioneering woman, Dina St Johnston , in 1959. Posted by Lynette Webb, Senior Manager, External Relations
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