Angela Shore was a software consultant and programmer with USA company Digital Equipment Corporation, known as DEC, which began in the UK in Reading in 1964.
Angela’s first job in computing was with a Scottish company called Fortronic where she worked as an assembler programmer. She then moved to the South of England and started to work for ITL and wrote file system software – a forerunner of Microsoft Office. When ITL moved offices to Hertfordshire, Angela stayed in Hampshire and went to work for DEC in 1986. She joined as a programmer in the Basingstoke office, working up to a consultant.