The first computer programme
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“Memories! When I started programming, on the Ferrari machine called Sirius, we programmed in binary and in autocode. We could create ‘loops’ which, if we decided to have fun, could create music on the machine. A ‘Programme of Sirius Music’. And this was in the 1960’s. We travelled to London to spend paid time inputting data, testing our programmes, editing on the actual machine using flip switches to binary code alterations. This was to create an online computerised system that enabled the coating of film base with up to 13 layers of emulsion for Kodak film rolls. No bombs involved!
I knew nothing about computers when I started and learnt ‘on the job’ like so many females in the industry at the time under a brilliant boss. Sirius was a very small machine housed in a very large air-conditioned room with a very different, enormous computer called Pegasus.
This Patented episode was a joy as it reminded me of the excitement and creativity attached to computers then. I am sure there are still those few who find such feelings as they work in what seems to have developed into such a mundane occupation.”
Magabus via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
03/08/23
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