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> As a 7 year old, I met two of them at IFIP68 in Edinburgh Can you fill in some background? What was IFIP68 and how did you end up there as a 7 year old?
by blast 3y ago
> As a 7 year old, I met two of them at IFIP68 in Edinburgh
Can you fill in some background? What was IFIP68 and how did you end up there as a 7 year old?
- ggm 3y agoIFIP68 was the 1968 conference of IFIP (The International Federation for Information Processing) held in Edinburgh. My dad was one of the conference organisers. Local host maybe? He was the foundation chair of the computer science department at the University of Edinburgh. As he was involved in the academic programme committee he had the principal keynote speakers back for socials, dinners and the like. I went to the trade show which was held alongside the conference, I got two cardboard mock pdp-8 computers from the Digital Equipment stand, they had just announced the PDP8/I configuration and were handing out cardboard blanks to prospective buyers. My memory is that this was in the old exhibition space next to Waverley station, which had a roof with gardens and glass insets, it was removed in the 70s. It was the kind of space which had the ideal home show, that kind of thing, but packed out with hardware vendors trying to sell mainframes. I think I had the only 2 node parallel cardboard pdp-8 in existence.