Interviewee: John M.M. Pinkerton

Interviewee: John M.M. Pinkerton (1919 – 1997)

Interviewer: John Pinkerton, self interview

Date of Interview: 23.08.1988

Role in LEO: Chief Engineer

Joined LEO: 1948

Abstract: Pinkerton begins by discussing his education and wartime work in radar technology in England. He then describes his movement into the computer industry after World War II and his work on the LEO I and LEO II computers. In this context he discusses the British computer firms J. Lyons and Company, LEO Computers, English Electric Co., and International Computers Ltd.

Repository: Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Transcript: 54 pages

Copyright: Charles Babbage Institute

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Date : 23rd August 1988

Repository: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/53241/John-Pinkerton-Self-Interview/

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