Not really that influential in the early years of computing, though. As with Turing, she came to popular attention long after the technology had progressed beyond her point.

(The real history of early computing is more like "OK, we can do arithmetic and logic with gears, relays, or tubes, but we need a cheaper memory device." Memory devices were a long struggle in early computing. Things tried in the early years: lots of tubes (huge and very expensive per bit), paper tape (slow), mechanical wheels (expensive and very slow), rotating wheels of capacitors (small), mercury delay lines (messy, hard to keep in sync, temperature dependent, slow), magnostrictive delay lines (same problems as mercury delay lines but less messy), Williams electrostatic storage CRTs (expensive, but the first real random-access device), magnetic drums (slow), magnetic tape(slow, but big), and finally magnetic core memory (fast, random access, but expensive). Then came RAM, and 128 bits per chip, and 1K per chip, and 4K per chip, and 16K per chip, and 64K per chip...)