By Colin Barker
Published: Friday 20 June 2008
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Karen Challinor
Location
UK
Occupation
staring at clouds
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Professor Kilburn was one of the developers of Baby, he had a great sense of humour and always had time for students
I remember him telling us about working on drum storage where he basically took a vacuum cleaner and bolted the drum on, an extremely hazardous thing to do but health and safety didn't get much of a look in in those days
a great man and sadly missed
Professor Kilburn was one of the developers of Bab...
Karen Challinor
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