[LINK] Southern Hemisphere’s biggest data centre gets the green light (Published:, 28 November 2025)

[Marghanita da Cruz]

On 2/11/26 16:24, David wrote:
> While we're in reminiscence mode, I remember touring the CSIRO CDC 
> 3600 in the old Standards Lab. building near the City Road gates at 
> Syd.Univ., a shiny new state of the art wonder at the time. The system 
> was architected around a 36-bit word, 6x 6-bit bytes if I remember 
> correctly. Now there's a convention which eventually died.

As we are reminiscing, my first job, in Canberra, was as as a Node 
Liaison Officer on Csironet (I remember PDPs 
https://csiropedia.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/the-evolution-of-csironet.pdf) 
with bureau services on a CDC cyber '76.  I had to replace a cards with 
a Personal Computer. Programmed in Fortran and would run out of memory, 
and had to program the swapping too.

"finally purchased by Syntegra in 1999, a data mining firm." 
https://www.computerhistory.org/brochures/a-c/control-data-corporation-cdc/

https://syntegra.au/  "Streamlining the distribution of drone related 
parts and equipment for Australia and NZ."

or is it this  Syntegra:
> Syntegra is unlocking the promise of real-world evidence by employing 
> a groundbreaking machine learning model — the Syntegra Medical Mind — 
> to enable low-burden access to privacy-preserved and equitable 
> synthetic health data, increasing the value of data for those who have 
> it and providing access for those who need it. Synthetic data matches 
> the statistical accuracy of the underlying data without linking to any 
> actual patients, fully protecting patient privacy.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/syntegra-io

> Our work in computers and network technology continues. There was the 
> start of Csironet, our first computing service and network, that is 
> celebrating its 60th anniversary, and now our high-performance 
> computer Virga, which uses energy-efficient direct liquid cooling.

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/all/articles/2024/november/our-first-computer-turns-75-today

Marghanita da Cruz
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