Chapter 14
“Who is Grandma COBOL?” Kai asked, leaning toward her laptop screen in the study. “And that looks like Ginger beside her.” She read the caption under the photo. “That hulking machinery is a Univac computer, early 1960s. Way before PCs.”
“In the age of the dinosaurs in computer terms,” Marina said. “Say, that’s about when Ginger and Grandpa were living on the east coast, isn’t it?” The old photo uploaded to a website was a little blurry, but Marina could make out Ginger. “Let’s see,” she said, clicking on the other woman’s name. “Grace Hopper. Commodore Hopper, that is. Recipient of a Presidential Medal of Freedom. I think that’s the highest honor in this country.”
“For what?” Kai asked. The sisters sat huddled in front of her laptop in the study. They’d almost forgotten about
