HPR1811: Life and Times of a Geek part 2

Introduction

In the last part I told you of my first encounter with a mainframe computer and the Algol60 language while an undergraduate student at Aberystwyth University.

Today I want to talk about the next stage as a postgraduate student at the University of Manchester.

It seems to have taken me over 6 months to prepare this episode of this series, for which I apologise. I seem to get distracted as I do my background research.

Full Notes

Since the notes explaining this subject are particularly long, they have been placed here: https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1811_full_shownotes.html and an ePub version is also available here: https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr1811_full_shownotes.epub.

Links

• University of Manchester:
  • Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Manchester
  • Prior to 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_University_of_Manchester
  • Manchester Museum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Museum
  • School of Computer Science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Computer_Science,_University_of_Manchester
• Behavioural Ecology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_ecology
• Experimental animals:
  • Barbary dove: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_dove
  • Common Marmoset: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_marmoset
• Current Contents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_Contents
• Card systems:
  • Index cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_card
  • Edge-notched cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge-notched_card
• Control Data Corporation CDC 7600: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_7600
• Seymour Cray: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray
• Cray-1 supercomputer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1
• ICT (ICL) 1900 series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICT_1900_series
• ICL GEORGE operating system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEORGE_%28operating_system%29
• Card Punch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keypunch
• UMRCC videos on YouTube:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swpE9IS8rso
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-ObR4Z6reY
• The three-day week: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Day_Week
• Fortran:
  • Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran
  • WikiBooks examples of Fortran: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Fortran/Fortran_examples#Simple_Fortran_IV_program
• Graph plotter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter
• NAG Library: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAG_Numerical_Library
• The Pascal language:
  • Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_%28programming_language%29
  • "The Programming Language Pascal" 1973: https://www.standardpascal.com/The_Programming_Language_Pascal_1973.pdf
• Life and Times of a Geek part 1: https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1664

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