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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond>I thought you should be aware that David Caminer, one
of the people behind LEO, died just over a week ago age 93.
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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond>Martin C-K's excellent obituary is at <A
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/david-caminer-system-designer-behind-leo-the-worlds-first-business-computer-854283.html?service=Print">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/david-caminer-system-designer-behind-leo-the-worlds-first-business-computer-854283.html?service=Print</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond>Alan Cane's obit a couple of days later is at <A
href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d3ade40c-44ab-11dd-b151-0000779fd2ac.html">http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d3ade40c-44ab-11dd-b151-0000779fd2ac.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond>And the NYT yesterday is at <A
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/technology/29caminer.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=obituaries&adxnnlx=1214821428-4UmJsQwpWB4qqPO/I%20rhMg&pagewanted=print">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/technology/29caminer.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=obituaries&adxnnlx=1214821428-4UmJsQwpWB4qqPO/I%20rhMg&pagewanted=print</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond>As someone who was a systems analyst working on LEO III
mainframe computers in the early 1970s my overriding memory is of hours and
hours spent reading out and checking hundreds of pages of numbers with the
programmers. The LEO of course predated compilers.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Garamond>kind regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Garamond>neil</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Dr Roger Neil Barton<BR>Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Historical
Research<BR><A
href="http://www.uclmail.net/~neil.barton/">http://www.uclmail.net/~neil.barton/</A></DIV></BODY></HTML>