Off-Topic (was: Re: [LINK] mystery header)

[Tony Barry]

At 9:28 AM +1100 24/3/01, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>If anyone is in Melbourne for a visit or living here, I can highly 
>recommend the new Museum of Victoria where CSIRAC now lives.

And a few bits of SILLIAC, which was built contemporaneously with 
CSIRAC can be found at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. About the 
same time the Atomic Energy Commission had a home built computer but 
I am uncertain of it's fate. I remember Bruce McKellar, who was a 
fellow honours physics student, (last I heard he was Dean of Science 
at Melbourne University and Professor of Theoretical Physics) 
returning from a vacation job at the AEC and telling us that he has 
programmed their computer in algebra using something called Fortran. 
We found this difficult to believe!

Tony
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