Thomas/Tommy Flowers has received further posthumous recognition in recent years, but he deserves still more. He lived to a great age and was finally, I believe, knighted. (The MBE he had received earlier seemed to be to be paltry recognition for his contributions.)
I met him on one occasion in the early 1970s at the [then] computer-science pub in London. I thought it should be the other way around, but he bought me a glass of superb amontillado. A civilized and modest man with little to be modest about. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
