b'Before 1969Teaching In 1969 I was fortunate enough to beasked by Professor John Byrne of1957 Professor Bill Wright elected Chair of1963 MSc in Computer Applications Trinity College to go to the NationalEngineering1964 Course in FORTRAN Computing Centre (NCC) in Manchester,1962 Graduate School of Engineering 1968 Evening courses began which had been founded three years1966Computing option within the1968 MSc students punching and re- earlier by the Labour Government inEngineering degree began punching programs onto paper tape the UK. He wanted me to attend NCCs1969 Department of Computer Scienceintroductory course on systems analysis andProfessor John G Byrne, Lecturer in establisheddesign and to assess its suitability for eveningComputer Science courses in Trinity. The NCC course established aAs the senior electronics technician it was my clear methodological approach to theProfessor Valentine Rice (School of responsibility to prepare the laboratory for development of computer systems. It alsoEducation in TCD) ensured that all teacherstudent engineersThe IBM 1620 computer in the introduced the concept of the systemseducation courses from 1969 contained anelectronics laboratory was used for teaching and development life cycle. These processes had beenelement on computers in education research. Professor John Byrne was the main missing from the computer operations of thecomputer person and Vivian Killeen was the first 1960s, but they became the bedrock on whichEquipment in use many information systems were built. operator When Vivian resigned, I introduced1962 IBM 1620 Model 1 Rosemary Murphy (later Rosemary Welsh) to Dudley Dolan, Associate Professor in TCD 1968 IBM 1130 replaces IBM 1620 Professor Byrne and she became the IBM 1620 1983 -20061969 IBM 360/44 first mainframeoperator.computerMichael Rogersworking at the Trinity Collegeelectronics laboratory in 1962(Photograph by Brendan Scaife. Source: School of Computer Scienceand Statistics, TCD)15'