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Talking in maths
And so to the ongoing search for the oldest second-generation programmers.
Roger York, aged 63 and recently retired, started in the business in 1966, but is a newbie compared with his father, now aged 90.
“He was a mathematician working with computers in the late 1940s, using mercury delay lines. In the winter he would go inside among the ranks of valves to keep warm. He continued using computers and finally stopped programming them about five years ago.”
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