Retired IBMer

Alan A. Smith

I knew John very well in the mid 1960s. We worked together very intensively as newly qualified IBMers on the Laxon Wholesale Grocers client and on a very large proposal for Mercian Builders Merchants. This was our first opportunity to test our new skills. John was always very professional and thoroughly reliable. He managed to combine this with a sunny personality, generous, cheerful, polite, considerate but also enjoying a good joke. I remember one particularly stressful episode where he stayed working determinedly on a solution at the client site for 72 hours, only snatching a few hours sleep on a desk or on the floor. I retain great respect for John and regret. his passing

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