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Dan Atkins' Symposium

Witness to the computer revolution

by Patrick Dunn

posted 10/7/2012

"I guess my revelation was that I would never have to decide what I wanted to be if I went into computers," Dan Atkins says. As an undergrad at Bucknell University in the early sixties, he worked with a computer called the Burroughs E101. "You actually programmed it with little pins, almost like doing a Lite Brite puzzle," he recalls. He went on to become one of

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