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Betty Cooper <\/u><\/strong>(better known under her maiden name Betty Newman), sister in law of Pat Cooper (Mrs Pat Fantl) Sadly\u00a0Betty died on 31st August. She worked from 1955 to 1964 on both LEO l and LEO ll at Lyons.\u00a0 Her Oral History is noted below in the Oral History section.\u00a0 Applications she made programming contributions include L4, the Tea-Blending job, and the production control application for the Liverpool clock and watch makers J.D. Francis, an application specified by Oliver Standingford. She became a valued member of Leo Fantl\u2019s payroll group including involvement with the Ford, Stewarts and Lloyds and Kodak payroll. After retirement from LEO she did freelance programming for LEO II and LEO III customers (including LEO Computers) and devised a system for writing programs in Braille for blind programmers .Betty Cooper<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An earlier very comprehensive interview was conducted by Janet Abbate on 14 September 2001 as Interview # 585 for the IEEE History Center, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. and is reproduced in Engineering and Technology Wiki at
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