There’s just something about the autumnal season that makes us want to look back. This week’s Trivia Challenge is going to do just that, paying tribute to a pioneering mainframer who passed away eight years ago at the age of 91. The only child of a German-Jewish family, Erich Bloch survived the Second World War and, in 1948, immigrated to the United States where he was to play a key role in mainframe development.
Bloch put himself through school by pumping gas and cleaning laboratory equipment. That tenacity saw him through a career that took him from the world of mainframes to the halls of government, where he took particular interest in programs benefiting women, minorities, and the disabled.
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