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Twentieth Century Male

- Recollections of a Mainframe Engineer

av Ken Beard
Twentieth Century Male av Ken Beard
Om Twentieth Century Male

About the author Ken Beard was a retired mainframe computer engineer who lived in the Thames Valley in the UK. When he reached 80, he decided to write his memoirs. He died in 2021. About the book Twentieth Century Male is at once personal memoir, social history, travelogue and document of working life in the mainframe age. It is arranged as a series of vignettes. Here is the boy under the shadow of German night raiders. The young soldier threatened with court martial. The man posted around the world to fix the room-sized computers of the Burroughs Corporation. The old chap going scuba diving with his wife well into his 70s. Ken Beard's selective autobiography records the male appetite for adventure in an enclosed postwar world.

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  • Språk:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9798389381711
  • Bindende:
  • Paperback
  • Sider:
  • 158
  • Utgitt:
  • 14. april 2023
  • Dimensjoner:
  • 152x229x9 mm.
  • Vekt:
  • 218 g.
Leveringstid: 2-4 uker
Forventet levering: 1. juni 2026

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About the author
Ken Beard was a retired mainframe computer engineer who lived in the Thames Valley in the UK. When he reached 80, he decided to write his memoirs. He died in 2021. About the book
Twentieth Century Male is at once personal memoir, social history, travelogue and document of working life in the mainframe age. It is arranged as a series of vignettes. Here is the boy under the shadow of German night raiders. The young soldier threatened with court martial. The man posted around the world to fix the room-sized computers of the Burroughs Corporation. The old chap going scuba diving with his wife well into his 70s. Ken Beard's selective autobiography records the male appetite for adventure in an enclosed postwar world.

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