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On 12/06/2016 12:03 PM, news16 wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 15:16:51 +1000, felix wrote:
>
>> http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/australias-biggest-tech-
> dinosaur-the-csirac-turns-60-this-week/news-
> story/967386f8f8e692c42618ba2cfed3d9e2
>
> Yawn, a real non-event that is a publicity stunt for the uni.
>
> http://acms.org.au/computing-history-timeline
> And if you go to the ACMS front page http://acms.org.au/
> This bit is there
>
> " 2013 is the centennial of the Sir George JULIUS Tote - internationally
> recognised as the world's FIRST Multi-User, Real-Time, Computer even
> though it was electro-mechanical. [He was also the first CSIRO Chairman]
> A working demonstration version is being built."
>
> The point, Australia was right up there at the fore front of computing
> and the government of the day pulled the rug out from under it. Will we
> do the same when it comes to the NBN.

CSIRO had a department of computing research up to the late 1980s. It 
was an interesting but a bugger of a place to work, full of seriously 
weird people.

> Those early computers(other than than "The Tote" didn't have great
> current practical uses either, but now our way of life depends on them
> underpinning it.
>
>

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