Ian McNaught-Davis
| Ian McNaught-Davis | |
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McNaught-Davis at 2009 Climbers' Club Welsh Dinner
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| Born |
30 August 1929 Wakefield |
| Died | 10 February 2014 (aged 84) |
| Other names | Mac |
| Known for |
Mountaineering, climbing, BBC Computer Literacy Project |
Ian McNaught-Davis (30 August 1929 – 10 February 2014) was a British television presenter mainly known for presenting the BBC TV series The Computer Programme, Making the Most of the Micro and Micro Live in the 1980s. He was also a well-known mountaineer and alpinist. He was managing director of the British subsidiary of Comshare Inc.
The son of Stanley McNaught-Davis, an ex RAF pilot, he was educated at Rothwell Grammar School in Lofthouse, West Yorkshire (originally built in Rothwell, West Yorkshire), followed by national service in the RAF where his poor eyesight thwarted his ambitions to become a pilot. He achieved a first in Mathematics at the University of Manchester, where he also became an active mountaineer.
After university he had a variety of jobs including : digging ice tunnels for glaciologists on Monte Rosa in Switzerland; fixing roofs and teaching. Eventually he settled as a geophysicist for British Petroleum (BP), specialising in Africa.
In the 1970s he switched careers to information technology, and joined Comshare Inc, where he remained until retirement in 1995. Comshare specialised in software development and resale of redundant operational time on mainframe computer systems. He rose to become chief executive of the European division and managing director of the British subsidiary.
He presented the BBC TV series The Computer Programme,Making the Most of the Micro and Micro Live in the 1980s.
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