Siddique had been fascinated by computers from his early teens, eventually enrolling in a computing technician's course at the Central College of Commerce in Glasgow.

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Dr. David Palat, a pulmonologist who works on sleep disorders, told me that a technician had scanned the data I had generated that night nowadays, of course, sleep data are recorded by computer, rather than on a ream of paper and had analyzed the information so that it could be presented in a series of tables.

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