THE RISE AND FALL OF SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING IN AUSTRALIA
Following the invention and development of the transistor in the late1940’s in the USA, the CSIRO began research into semiconductors.
SNOCOM and CIRRUS
Sixty years ago Australians designed and built two of the first transistorised computers called SNOCOM and CIRRUS. They were very advanced for their era.
The Role of the ICT Community in the Future Resilience and Self-Reliance of Australia
On August 9th the Pearcey Foundation hosted a Conversation on the Role of the ICT Community in the Future Resilience and Self-reliance of Australia.
The world’s biggest non-IBM IBM network
Nobody much remembers it now, but 40 years ago Australia built one of the world’s largest computer networks. In 1981 Australia’s Department of Social Security (DSS) began planning an ambitious network to connect all of its 210 Australian offices in real time. The plan...Girls, computers and rocket science.
Barbara Ainsworth, Monash Museum of Computing History, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University.