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John Pinkerton: Self Interview

Interviewee: John M.M. Pinkerton (1919 - 1997)
Interviewer: John Pinkerton, self interview
Date of Interview: 23.08.1988
Role in LEO: Chief Engineer
Joined LEO: 1948

Abstract: Pinkerton begins by discussing his education and wartime work in radar technology in England. He then describes his movement into the computer industry after World War II and his work on the LEO I and LEO II computers. In this context he discusses the British computer firms J. Lyons and Company, LEO Computers, English Electric Co., and International Computers Ltd.

Repository: Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Transcript: 54 pages
Copyright: Charles Babbage Institute

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Date : 23rd August 1988

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This exhibit has a reference ID of CH53241. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.
 

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