How one computer salesman contributed to the digital revolution

Last night I sat down next to someone who looked familiar at a university talk. This being a university, they turned out to have a PhD, be an author of a book and pioneer in the computer industry. Dr Christopher B. Yardley, is author of "ALSO INNOVATORS: How one computer salesman contributed to the digital revolution" (2016). The full text is available free online from ANU Press. The technology mentioned will sound like ancient history to computer professionals today. But the problems of introducing new technology are still current.

Contents of Also Innovators

• Preface

1. ‘A proper job’
2. Once were cowboys
3. A working ‘home away from home’
4. A taste of Northern bitter
5. Eddie French’s rainbow
6. The brewer’s assistant
7. Pursuing my own rainbow’s end
8. The tallyman and other endeavours
9. Adventures in Southeast Asia
10. As far south as we could go
11. Working with the airlines in the Australasia-Pacific region
12. The ups and downs of a contractor
13. Not a multinational this time
14. A swansong working with the public service

• Afterword