My mum ran the computing department in the Education Faculty at a university in Australia from 1976. I was 6 years old then and would 'help' her at work during

My mum ran the computing department in the Education Faculty at a university in Australia from 1976. I was 6 years old then and would 'help' her at work during school holidays and sometimes when I was ill. My fond memories included: - Discovering the paper tape machine. - Writing stories on the card punch machine, one line per card. - Pressing buttons on the massive card sorting machine when noone was looking. - Walking to the Computer Centre to pick up the output of my mum's previous day's coding. If she was lucky, there was a thick stack of fanfold paper in her pigeonhole. If not, just a couple of pages with the error message. - Around 1978, playing with her HP RPN calculator. It had an inbuilt reader for programs on small magnetic strips. I typed in the example Moon Lander program from the manual and spent a few hours figuring out how much thrust was needed to land without crashing. - Some time around 1979 they got a computer with a video display and a lightpen. And a 300 baud acoustic coupler.