raleighnut
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My first IT job was at a site where they were running a LeoIII (English Electric), programming in CLEO, converting to an ICT computer in COBOL. This would have been late 1968.
Yeah Dad progressed to 'punch card operator' then went to night school to learn programming, I remember as a kid there were the manuals for Cobol and Fortran, probably others around the house, he went on to be part of the team that wrote the control programs for 2 Nuclear Powerstations (Hartlepool and Heysham) eventually ending up as a dept head and then when GEC closed Whetstone making thousands redundant they moved 20-30 'key personnel' up north to somewhere near Jodrell Bank. Dad was one to get relocated with the company even buying the old house in Enderby.