James P. Lennane

After receiving his master's degree in mathematics from the
University of Detroit, Mr. Lennane joined the International 
Business Machines Corporation in 1964, spending two and a 
half years as a scientific systems engineer and a salesman. 
He then founded Computer Hardware Inc., which produced clones 
of the I.B.M. 1130 and 1800 mid-size computers, and in 1973 
founded System Integrators, which sold publishing systems 
to small newspapers using the clone computers. The company 
broke into the big time in 1980 with a $9 million sale to 
The Los Angeles Times.