Great rabbit hole, searching the UNSW archives.

Thanks for finding the 1979 Report.

The photo below would’ve been taken in the IBM 360 machine room after its removal.

On Elec Eng, 4th floor?

The raised flooring was for the IBM.

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PDP 11/70 Computer in the Department of Computer Science

<https://digitalcollections.library.unsw.edu.au/nodes/view/133051>

The new PDP 11/70 computer in the Department of Computer Science, including: Peter Ivanov (seated), Ian Johnstone.

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On 30 Jul 2025, at 10:27, Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au> wrote:

A cropped colour version of this photo is used on the wikipedia page
for John Lions, but the unsw.edu.au source of it was removed.
A non-cropped colour version also appears on the cover of the
1979 UNSW Annual Report:
https://digitalcollections.library.unsw.edu.au/nodes/view/171706