My grandfather had to drop out of high school, after his dad died from an infection. He unloaded trains for the A&P grocery chain, and proposed that they reorder shipments to save money. He retired in charge of half of New England. His computer center was a bank of women at fancy adding machines.
Fresh out of college, my father helped a senior programmer at Kodak automate testing for their film developing chemical baths. This replaced dozens of people. Kodak found them other positions, and moved my dad to the research labs. He used computers from the beginning, and told me many stories. On a family night in the 1960's I got to play the original "space wars".
In 1974 he came up with the color sensor pattern now used in nearly all digital cameras.
I also got to play space wars on a pdp-1 but my father didn't invent digital photography :(
Wondering though...I visited the Rochester labs in the mid-80s -- hardware I had a hand in was being used there for projects that I suspect were secret at the time such as computer simulation of photochemistry and warping of photoint images to conform to map data. I wonder if I met your father?
I grew up with PCs and a Commodore 64 in the 80's, which I think was the golden era of personal computing, but I absolutely love stories from earlier!