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.
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...