Grace hopper died in 1992 well into her 80s.
Edit: Ada Lovelace (maiden name Augusta Ada Byron. Yeah that was her dad, no they never met, but that's the time period) wrote the first computer code with a quill pen. Computers were largely considered 'women's work' until I think like the late 50s; most of turing's team at bletchley park were women. Up until the 1980s it was probably wise, if you wanted the deep lore on computers, to ask somebody's grandma.