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Betty Ryan (Tylko) was the first woman game developer at GCC.  She created the Atari Quantum arcade game and several Atari home computer games.

“For a while every time I ran my code, it would blow a fuse in the hardware.

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I went through boxes and boxes of fuses before I figured it out.”

Betty Ryan

Betty graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Engineering and Applied Sciences, as there was yet no Computer Science major.  She loved math and mathematical puzzles.

There were few women in Computer Science at Harvard, but the small group stuck together and thrived. CS graduates were a hot commodity in the late 70’s, and after graduation Betty was hired by Strategic Planning Associates, a management consulting firm.

She wrote financial analysis software that allowed consultants to simulate the effects of corporate changes on their client’s bottom line. When the company moved to Washington, a coworker recommended Betty look at General Compute