WRT computers and computer programming, CaliforniaPeggy is probably alluding to Ada Lovelace.
WRT computers, Ada worked with Charles Babbage's "Difference Engine", which he had invented, and Babbage's designed (by him) but never built "Analytical Engine". If what Babbage designed could in modern usage be termed a computer instead of a calculator, both were analog computers, akin to the USN's Ford Mark 1 Fire Control Computer and TDC, both used in WW2. She also suggested a process by which inputs could accomplish a calculation using the never-built "Analytical Engine", which some regard as the first computer program.
Analog computers were and are very different from digital computers. Analog computers use gears to convert inputs to some trajectory or solution. Digital computers use "switches" - progressing from relays to vacuum tubes to transistors to logic block ICs to single-IC processors - to perform the calculations and data manipulation specified by a program.
In brief, Ada Lovelace did not invent any type of computer, and her calculation process was hypothetical and not even similar to 1950s assembly language programs. I doubt that CaliforniaPeggy would understand this, and she believes what she wants to believe, regardless of facts. I suspect that many of CaliforniaPeggy's factoids are similarly challenged by the claims' vagueness ("Space Station Power"? Solar panels? atomic reactors? Batteries? Switch-mode power conversion?) reality. It is true, however, that Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar, though she did not work on uses for the fiber she invented. Michael Nesmith's (the guitarist) mother did invent correction fluid, and being a typist, did use it.
