Interviewee: John Page DOB: 1944
Interviewer: Dag Spicer, Computer History Museum, CA.
Date of Interview: April 11th 2017
Joined LEO: 1958?
Role in LEO: Commissioning Engineer
Abstract: Scholarship boy at St Clements Danes, public School. Interested in radio and electronics as a hobby. Chance encounter with friend working at Lyons led to application to LEO. Did well in LEO aptitude test and offered job as engineering apprentice in Minerva Road. As such worked on various engineering jobs before joining Tony Morgan’s commissioning team. Provides fascinating account of way LEO operations worked to ensure to make working computers and working systems. Rose to become chief commissioning engineer on a number of LEO IIIs including Post Office and Czech machines. Left LEO after merger created ICL, but continued his career in computing, but changing from engineering to software management including a spell working for Hewlett Packard and moving to live in US.
Left LEO: Made redundant after formation of ICL
Repository: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/62998/John-Page-Interview/
Copyright: Computer History Museum, CA.
Restrictions: None known