Eben upton biography of abraham

Eben was born in 1978 in Griffithstown, South Wales (home to his mother’s family) but he lived there for only eight weeks before his parents took him to Lae, the second largest city in Papua New Guinea where he lived until he was two and a half.

Eben’s parents were both English language teachers and his father secured a teaching post at the University of Technology in Lae: it afforded an opportunity to travel to a very different part of the world. When his parents returned to the UK Eben lived briefly in Leeds, then Selly Oak in Birmingham where his father had a research job for a short period before settling in Ilkley, Yorkshire.

Eben first attended St Edward’s Roman Catholic school in Birmingham and there, aged four, he had his earliest experience of computing, playing a game on a Mini-Computer at the University, where his father worked.

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