On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 03:11:00PM -0800, Andrew McGuigan <ajmcguigan at yahoo.com> wrote: > Also, if what I've read and the historical novels > "Enigma" and "Cyrptonomium" are accurate, staff > shortages on the "homefront" were acute, thus women > were more available then men for cryptology (which is > what the early computers were for). You forgot the other two major users for computers in that time period: 1) Calculating artillery trajectory/ballistics tables 2) Designing nuclear bombs -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp