My Mom was a FORTRAN programmer for a defense contractor from the late 50s to the mid 90s. She spent her career doing things like that F16 simulator. The last thing I remember her talking about was one of the B1 or B2 bombers.
When I was elementary school age in the late 70s, I'd go into her office with her sometimes on school holidays that were not work holidays. She'd let me play Colossal Cave Adventure on a terminal in her office. I remember looking at printouts of code she was working on, and seeing a wireframe diagram of some futuristic plane. I think it must have been one of the first Stealth fighters. I wonder how many security protocols she broke by having me there... :)
She passed a way many years ago, but I think she would have been excited to see work like this.
When I was elementary school age in the late 70s, I'd go into her office with her sometimes on school holidays that were not work holidays. She'd let me play Colossal Cave Adventure on a terminal in her office. I remember looking at printouts of code she was working on, and seeing a wireframe diagram of some futuristic plane. I think it must have been one of the first Stealth fighters. I wonder how many security protocols she broke by having me there... :)
She passed a way many years ago, but I think she would have been excited to see work like this.