[LINK] Computer science born in Australia 70 years ago

[Andy Farkas]

On 19/09/2021 1:02 pm, Antony Barry wrote:

> And 10 years later, also at Sydney University I wrote my first program

I wrote my first program in the late 70's :)

It was because my father worked with DEC that he was able to bring
home a PDP-11/20 (including rack) with an ASR-33 TeleType. Those
blinken lights were so seductive... and the paper-tape puncher...
...magnetic core memory - turn it off, when turned back on its all there!

<sniffle> I'm getting old :( </sniffle>

-andyf

ps. the program was "Star Trek" written in FOCAL - you warped around
the galaxy and shot down Klingons..