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<td>UCC where are they now ...</td>
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<td>Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:17:27 -0400</td>
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<td>Ian N. Evans <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ian_evans@icloud.com"><ian_evans@icloud.com></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:webmasters@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au">webmasters@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au</a></td>
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<blockquote type="cite" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51,
51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">If you
are former member and like to update us with regards your
whereabouts email </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:webmasters@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au" class="">webmasters@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au</a><br
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<div class="">Well well well ...</div>
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<div class="">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.</div>
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<div class="">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.</div>
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<div class="">A long way from the UCC ...</div>
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<div class="">Cheers,</div>
<div class="">—Ian</div>
<div class="">(<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:ian_evans@icloud.com" class="">ian_evans@icloud.com</a>)</div>
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