Besides jobs at Pan Am Airways and Bechtel Corporation, she worked at Digital Research, where she contributed to the development of CP/M, the first mainstream operating system for microcomputers.
After Pan Am, Kathryn Latimer worked at McGraw-Hill[5] and the estimating department of Bechtel Corporation.
[4][8][9] Kathryn Strutynski left NPS[10] and, in 1978[8]/1979,[11][6] became the fourth employee of Digital Research, Inc.[11][12] She adapted CP/M-80 for the Apple II[5][13][citation needed] and worked on CP/M 2.0,[7] CP/M 2.2,[14][15][12] CP/M Plus,[16][14][15] and DESPOOL, a background spooler for printing (utilizing simple multi-tasking)[17] as well as on the system guides.
[23] Kathryn Latimer met Alfred Waldemar Strutynski in a German dance hall.
They married in 1958 and moved to Carmel since her husband had started working for Monterey County as an auditor.
[26] For the reworked paperback issue (2006), Strutynski spent many hours working with Evans updating the chapter of his book related to the birth of CP/M.