Kathryn Strutynski

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Kathryn Strutynski
Born(1931-02-05)5 February 1931
Nephi, Utah, US
Died9 April 2010(2010-04-09) (aged 79)
Calgary, Canada
Resting placeNephi, Utah, USA[1]
Alma materBrigham Young University,
Naval Postgraduate School
SpouseAlfred Waldemar Strutynski
ChildrenKaren Strutynski née Strutynski

Kathryn Betty Strutynski (née Latimer) (5 February 1931 – 9 April 2010) was a mathematician and computer scientist, and attended university at Brigham Young University and the Naval Postgraduate School. Besides jobs at Pan Am Airways and Bechtel Corporation, she worked at Digital Research, where she contributed to the development of CP/M, the first mainstream operating system for microcomputers.

Early life and education

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Kathryn Betty Latimer was born on 5 February 1931[2] in Nephi, Utah, USA. Her father was Andrew Hans Latimer and her mother Henrietta Norton.[1][3]

Latimer obtained an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Brigham Young University in 1953,[4] and taught high school mathematics in Utah for two years.

Career

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In the early 1950s, she moved to San Francisco, where she worked at Pan Am Airways doing research. Kathy eventually became responsible for all the charter bids at the Western Division of Pan Am. When Pan Am consolidated its offices in New York Latimer was the only woman to be offered moving expenses to relocate to New York, but she declined the offer.

After Pan Am, Kathryn Latimer worked at McGraw-Hill[5] and the estimating department of Bechtel Corporation.[5] When the company decided to purchase a mainframe computer, Latimer was sent to take every class given at IBM. In 1952 and 1953, she built the company's first database retrieval system, with 10 engineers working under her charge, renting computer time since they did not have a mainframe computer at that time. The database was used for a period of ten years.[5] In 1958, she married Alfred Waldemar Strutynski.

Kathryn Strutynski's husband moved to Monterey, California to work for the County of Monterey as an auditor. The couple lived in Carmel Village, where she worked at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) since 1967[4][6] and completed a master's degree program in computer programming at the same time. Strutynski was given system responsibility for the VM operating system at the NPS.[5] At the same time, Gary Kildall also taught at the NPS[4] and was interested in operating systems. They became friends,[7] studied and made unofficial changes to CP/CMS and VM/370.[4][8][9]

Digital Research

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Main article: Digital Research

Kathryn Strutynski left NPS[10] and, in 1978[8]/1979,[11][6] became the fourth employee of Digital Research, Inc.[11][12] She adapted CP/M-80 for the Apple II[5][13][citation needed] and worked on CP/M 2.0,[7] CP/M 2.2,[14][15][12] CP/M Plus,[16][14][15] and DESPOOL, a background spooler for printing (utilizing simple multi-tasking)[17] as well as on the system guides. She also was the project manager for CP/M-86,[14][15][12] Concurrent CP/M-86[12] and Concurrent PC DOS.[18]

Around 1985, Strutynski returned to work for NPS at the W. R. Church Computer Center,[19] where she raised the PC lab[19] and taught MS-DOS and WordPerfect courses[20] as Manager of Microcomputing Support[21] and Learning Resource Centers.[22]

In her later years, she ran Strutynski Associates in Carmel.[23]

Personal life

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Kathryn Latimer met Alfred Waldemar Strutynski in a German dance hall. They married in 1958 and moved to Carmel since her husband had started working for Monterey County as an auditor. She worked for the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey and later at Digital Research.[24]

Death

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Kathryn Strutynski died on 9 April 2010 at her daughter's home in Calgary while she was 79. Her husband died two days later.[25][24]

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Harold Evans wrote about her in his book They Made America (2004).[26] For the reworked paperback issue (2006), Strutynski spent many hours working with Evans updating the chapter of his book related to the birth of CP/M.[5][12][27]

See also

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References

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  7. ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (1+2+78 pages) (NB. Part 2 not released due to family privacy reasons.)
  8. ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (1 page) (NB. Discusses the informal way Gary Kildall hired Strutynski and her role in developing some of significant Digital Research Products.)
  9. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). [3:31] (NB. Strutynski tells of her youth in Utah, attending BYU, coming to San Francisco to work for Pan American Airlines, and then Bechtel.)
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  11. ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (1 page) (NB. Listing of the first 39 DRI employees listed by date of hire. According to this list, Strutynski was hired about two months before Thomas Alan Rolander, who is often considered to have been DRI's first employee, although John R. Pierce was.)
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  13. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (NB. Digital Research's CP/M Gold Card was a Z80 coprocessor card for the Apple II with 64 or 192 KB of RAM. It came with CP/M Pro 3.0, CBASIC and other development tools.)
  14. ^ a b c Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (4 pages) (NB. Written after Strutynski gave a talk in the Netherlands.)
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  26. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (2+1+496+2 pages) (NB. A corrected revision was released as paperback in 2006.)
  27. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (692 pages) (NB. This paperback is a corrected revision of the original 2004 hardback edition. There is a 2014 revision of this book, which, in a chapter "Vindication for Kildall" [3], also discussed the outcome of the 2005–2007 Tim Paterson v. Harold Evans lawsuit and the IEEE 2013 Diamond Entrepreneurial Excellence Award for Kildall.)

Further reading

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  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). [1:22]; Bill Selmeier (ed.) 2006-05-20 (NB. At the Naval Post Graduate School, describes how Strutynski became friends with Gary Kildall, founder of Digital Research.)
  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). [2:53]; Luanne Johnson (ed.) 2006-05-22 (NB. Describes how Gary Kildall hired Strutynski into Digital Research and a little on how everyone worked together.)
  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). [8:23]; Bill Selmeier (ed.) 2006-05-24 (NB. About tasks, working relations, and stories from the very earliest years of Digital Research Incorporated.)
  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). [2:56]; Bill Selmeier (ed.) 2006-04-18/2006-04-28
  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). [8:01]; Bill Selmeier (ed.) 2006-05-24 (NB. Relates some of Strutynski experiences developing CP/M 2.2.)
  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). [3:40]; Bill Selmeier (ed.) 2006-05-24 (NB. Strutynski talks about her CP/M-86 recollections.)
  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). [7:21]; Bill Selmeier (ed.) 2006-05-24 (NB. Relates why Strutynski regretfully has to leave Digital Research and then reflects back on her many experiences at the company.)
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  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). [4][5]
  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (1 page) (NB. Reprinted from Digital Research News Vol. 2 no. 3.)
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