That hammer maker was Joseph Boyer.
In the 1950s, the company this man founded partnered with a British company to create the HOBO group.  This man hired Alfred Doughty as an assistant. He started his company by renting space from the inventor of  one of the first successful pneumatic hammers. That hammer maker was Joseph Boyer. In the 1970s, Dijkstra  worked in this man's company's research center in Austin. This man's invention used a nine column design  with a locked keyboard. This man's company would later use its Master Control Program in its "large systems."  This man's Registering Accountant was a calculator designed for store and bank use. That Registering Accountant  was the first adding machine to be widely commercially successful. For 10 points, name this inventor whose  grandson of the same name wrote Electronic Revolution 1970-71, The Soft Machine, and The Naked Lunch.
In the 1950s, the company this man founded partnered with a British company to create the HOBO group.  
William Seward Burroughs I