Personal Opinions
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My Mother Worked at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. I Have the Photo to Prove It.
I grew up hearing pieces of this story. Betty — that’s what everyone called her — worked in computing during an era when most people didn’t know what a computer was. She started at the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation in Philadelphia in 1949, the same year they were finishing the UNIVAC. When Remington Rand bought the…
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Why This Archive Exists
The purpose, scope, and intent behind the C W Jay Archive. This archive was created to document and preserve a family history that intersects with the early development of electronic computing, Cold War engineering, and the personal costs that often remained invisible at the time. For decades, much of this history existed only in fragments—stories…