Might be of interest: Upcoming @BBCRadio4 programme on women in 1950s-70s computing: "The I.T. Girls" http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038hfkx (Wednesday 21 August, 11 hrs BST) Txs to Andrew Smith (Coventry). I think you can catch it online if outside the UK. -- ================== Twitter @BatizLazo Technological Innovation in Retail Finance: International Historical Perspectives Edited by Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, J. Carles Maixé-Altés, Paul Thomes http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415880671 Home page: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/business/staff/bernardo_batiz-lazo.en.php Working papers: http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba14.html