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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By John Markoff / The Bulletin
June 22, 2008
Hewitt Crane, who was instrumental in the design and construction of the first commercial computer to automate checking accounts, died Tuesday at his home in Portola Valley, Calif., not far from Ridge Vineyards, which he helped found. He was 81.
The cause was complications of....