By Jo Best
Published: Wednesday 02 February 2005
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MikeW
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Midlands, UK
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Developer
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Well, it *is* Richard Sarson. Read his other articles !
And I imagine that "Yankee" is used in the same sense that US Americans use the term "Limey" for inhabitants of Britain, rather than for Elizabethan sailors.
On the computing front, I've still got my Acorn Atom, homebuilt 8080 CPU board, Ferranti Pegasus assembler book and Maurice Wilkes' lecture notes from the year he retired (I should have got him to sign them !!)
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