74002 John Pinkerton Remembrance File

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 A File relating to John Pinkerton on the advent of his death including:

  • An article titled 'Performance problems with LEO I' by J. M. M. Pinkerton that was presented at the Colloquium on the 25th Anniversary of the stored Program Computer, held at the Royal Society, London, on 12th November 1974
  • A telegram from Wally Dutton to Tony Morgan with an invitation to a meeting
  • An article written by Professor Sir Maurice V Wilkes KB FRs FREng on behalf of IEE relating to the commemoration and honour of John Pinkerton
  • A copy of an obituary on the "Death of John Pinkerton on 22nd December 1997
  • A newspaper article titled "John Pinkerton - Scientist who drew on his childhood hobby of building wireless sets to design for J Lyons the world's first business computer"

Date : 12th November 1974 to 5th December 2000

Physical Description : 1 file, 7 items, paper; typescript

Provenance :
Donated to the LEO Computers Society by Tony Morgan via John Daines



Archive References : CMLEO/JD/PUB/74002 , JDA5.8

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This exhibit has a reference ID of CH74002. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History. 		 
Article: 74002 John Pinkerton Remembrance File

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