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Article #613300Re: Supertramp's John Helliwell, originally a programmer
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Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2017 07:06
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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. -- greymaus.ireland.ie Just_Another_Grumpy_Old_Man
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