@mhoye

In 2017 Margaret Hamilton was inducted into the Computer History Museum's Hall of Fellows. On that occasion I was privileged to accompany her on a private, docent-guided tour of the Museum's public display.

She looked about the same as she does in these pictures from the 1960s, albeit a little grayer; a bright, diminutive grandma.

But she was very humble and human. At one point we rounded a corner into the Apollo section. Prominently in the front of the exhibit was a reproduction of your left-hand photo. Upon seeing it, Margaret stopped and exclaimed, "Oh my gosh! Is that me?"

@mhoye Aha! Pix or it didn't happen!

It turns out that my wife snapped a picture of that memorable moment. Margaret Hamilton was a very bright and gracious person.

If you look closely at the left end of the display rail in front of the exhibit you can see the famous photograph of Margaret standing beside her tower of printed code.

@mralancooper

Love the alt-text 😃
I recently came across another post about those missions, mentioning one of the people portrayed in the "hidden figures" movie.
Do you happen to know if Margaret Hamilton would've worked together with any of those people?

Cc
@mhoye

@folfdk I really know very little about the Apollo missions, but I just bought a book. It’s prolly out there…

And are you visually impaired or do you just read alt text anyway, like I do?