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On Wed, 09 Aug 2017 07:06:57 +0000, mausg wrote:

> On 2017-08-08, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
>> On Tue, 08 Aug 2017 14:01:28 -0700, hancock4 wrote:
>>
>>> One of the members of the Supertramp rock band found work in
>>> Birmingham England (August ’63) as a budding computer programmer for
>>> ICL, then Britain’s largest computer firm.  (that's the entire
>>> reference.)
>>> 
>>> rest of music biography at: http://www.johnhelliwell.com/bio2017.php
>>
>> They aren't quite right (being pedantic). ICL (International Computers
>> Limited) didn't exist in 1963. The government merged a number of
>> computer companies in 1968 to form ICL.
>>
>> It is likely that he worked for one of the component companies, most
>> likely ICT (International Computers and Tabulators). But it could have
>> been Elliott, English Electric, Marconi or Leo.
>>
>>
> Leo, that was the Lyons thing, was not it.. Funny, how that was not
> imitated.

It was much more than that by 1963. I guess Lyons were big enough to 
afford it. The thing about them is that they insourced *everything* - 
made their own cakes, imported theor own tea, etc. The computer thing was 
just a logical step. It's a fascinating story, and I have a book on it.



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