[committee] Fwd: UCC where are they now ...

[John Hodge]

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Subject: 	UCC where are they now ...
Date: 	Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:17:27 -0400
From: 	Ian N. Evans <ian_evans at icloud.com>
To: 	webmasters at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au




> If you are former member and like to update us with regards your 
> whereabouts email webmasters at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au 
> <mailto:webmasters at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>

Well well well ...

It’s been a long time indeed.  I was a member starting back in the early 
years when Edsel was our prime machine and we raised the money to 
purchase ACC Murphy.  Dual 8 inch floppies, and I wrote the drivers to 
turn a Baudot machine that we acquired (how, I forget) into a printer, 
amongst many other things lost in the mists of time.  Back then we all 
went by monikers such as Passionfingers (Dean Elsner), Reptile (Paul 
Repacholi; also Viper for his initials VPR), Major (Michael Dodemaide - 
who subsequently legally changed his name to "Major”), and many others. 
I was "The Angel" - allegedly because I somehow always (well, almost 
always) managed to make it to my lectures on time, despite all the 
goings on at the UCC.  Back then, over the years I held several of the 
UCC offices (except for President, as I recall), and was President of 
the UCCC for a couple of years (say no more!)  Then there were the USS 
(and it’s counterpart the USSS) for a few years, and also the Babbage 
Society which was the first (?) public computer interest club in Perth. 
And a bunch of spinoffs like Alphasoft and Betasoft, Rent-A-Mind, 
Rent-A-Judge, Micro-Age, Grip Holdings ... mostly put together by PF.

Since them I’ve been respectable (Okay Okay :-).  I got my Ph.D. in 
Astrophysics in the mid-80’s, moved to the US in late ’86, helped build 
one of the first generation instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope. 
  Since the mid-90’s I’ve been an Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian 
Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA), helped 
calibrate the X-ray mirrors on the Chandra X-ray Observatory  (launched 
on the shuttle Columbia in 1999) and have been the End-to-End Scientist 
responsible for the Chandra Data System ever since.  Last couple of 
years I’ve also been working on the first light instrument for the Giant 
Magellan Telescope which will be the biggest telescope in the world for 
a few years starting in 2021.

A long way from the UCC ...

Cheers,
—Ian
(ian_evans at icloud.com <mailto:ian_evans at icloud.com>)




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