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And Eckert and Mauchly definitively came to this idea before the involvement of Von Neumann.

There, you can find Eckert and Mauchly utterly central to the elucidation of how to build a general purpose electronic computer.

Was there segregation that prevented Bartik, McNulty, and the other female workers from being considered peers in the effort along with Mauchly and Eckert.

Years later, when John Mauchly was defending his patents on digital computers (after it had become declassified), the First Report was brought up as a public disclosure.

Yes, von Neumann was tasked with doing a write up of what Eckert and Mauchly were up to in the course of their contract building the eniac/edvac.

Neither Zuse nor Eckert and Mauchly ever did.

It seems they are making pains to say this was a team of females, alone, with no male members; but Mauchly and Eckert were part of the team, no?

Though Eckert and Mauchly liked to think they came up with the idea before von Neumann came along and that he got the idea from them, it is very hard to know if that is true.

"John von Neumann invented the digital computer" Mauchly and Eckert did but Neumann came and stole the fame.

Occasionally, but much more often (as in Mauchly's cited paper) an "order" was a machine instruction, not a high-level language "statement".

Yes, but that is mostly because in the first few years (including by the time of Mauchly), there were no "high-level" programming languages, so the "orders" composing the text of a program corresponded to instructions directly executable by the machine.

Neither Eckert, nor Mauchly, nor Zuse knew about Alan Turing’s 1936 paper when they designed their machines.

It is likely that the Eckert-Mauchly team had arrived earlier at this idea, but there is no evidence about this.

First, you had specialized systems, then Eckert, Mauchly, and von Neumann started working on stored program computers.