Quasi-related fun fact: I have never been able to find out what ( #abgov ) Alberta's first computer was. Apparently no one thought that was important enough to bother taking note of, not even our newspapers!
The #ableg librarians were able to uncover a budget line item one year, and a brochure from a couple of years (or more) later for #abhealth professionals on using the computer to dictate patient notes, but that's it.
@likelyjanlukas Huh! I'd have thought there'd have been SOME record - seems like a big change!!
Then again, as we all know, "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" was a thing that was said, so maybe... nobody thought that this was at all important at the time?
Quite possibly, although #ualberta had media stories about the time they used a phone to relay a program to the University of Toronto, as well as their first in-house computer. 🤔
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