The Doyen of the Valley Bids Adieu: Tekla S. Perry Blazed a Trail for Women Tech Journalists

When Senior Editor Tekla S. Perry started in this magazine's New York office in 1979, she was issued the standard tools of the trade: notebooks, purple colored pencils for making edits and corrections on page proofs, a push-button telephone wired into a WATS line for unlimited long distance calling, and an IBM Selectric typewriter, “the latest and greatest technology, from my perspective,” she recalled recently.