[jvandonsel]

"Dartmouth relaxed the rule barring women from its computer center..."

Just wow.

[PeterStuer]

According to Wikipedia Dartmouth College was a male only college until 1972.

Woman did work as employees at the computer center, and bringing dates from nearby schools and colleges to the computing center was apparently a thing as students liked to show off their computer skills.

Also of note: unlike other colleges, students at Dartmouth didn't need to pay for computer time, creating both opportunity but potentially also the need to 'guard' against outsiders.

[ponker]

Haha, I love the idea of impressing women by showing them your computer skills.

[notRobot]

Dunno what to say, green-on-black terminals, clean code and fast typing do always manage to turn me on ;)

[PeterStuer]

Given the era I think we are talking key punches, card readers and line printers here.

[6510]

I've been working at a joke about men creating languages and parallel processing but that's a story for a different thread.