30 Jul
2025
30 Jul
'25
3:29 a.m.
On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 02:16:13AM +1000, sjenkin(a)canb.auug.org.au wrote:
Explaining John’s comment.
I requested some reports from UNSW Archives in 2021.
This one, by Keith Titmus in 2000, was a short history of Prof Murray Allen,
who'd hired John Lions and Ken Robinson in 1972.
08_224_01 MW Allen_Keith-Titmus_2000
There were some Decwriters at UNSW, but mainly ’Serge’ Terminals in 1978.
Designed and built by the local staff (Serge P).
Before that, there was the INTERGRAPHIC, used with an IBM 360/50.
Malcolm Macaulay
A low cost computer graphic terminal
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1476589.1476688
"INTERGRAPHIC system built at the UNSW between 1964 and 1966 by
G. A. Rose under M. W. Allen. The design team included P. D. Jones,
T. Pearcey, R. B. Stanton and M. Macaulay"
https://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/595.html
Pearcey of CSIR Mk1/CSIRAC fame.
An oral history of Murray Allen goes into Unix and Intergraphic.
Murray Allen interviewed by David Demant in the History of ICT in
Australia oral history project
https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/178430368