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The first computer I programmed is shown on the left!
 
This was in the days of my first computer job with IBM in 1966, at Birmingham. However, before training as a computer programmer on this particular machine, I gained experience as an operator on a 2nd generation IBM 1401. This was years before on-line processing became the 'norm' and commercial work then was processed only in batches; as 'jobs'. During this time, my work was shift-based, and all big computer 'jobs' were left for the night-shift. So, on the night-shift, all that was needed was to load and start one of these 'jobs', and then go off into the city to enjoy some cafe night-life, knowing full well that the job would be going for 2 or 3 hours! In those days, computers were that slow, and were not able to multi-task (have multiple programs running at one time). That capability did not arrive until about 1969.

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Devon inventors built the fore-runners to to-day's computers over 150 years ago!! Click here for more!

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Click here for the story of how data was once input via the punched card.
 

 

In Oppenheimer's expansive book, Eden In The East, there is a hint that there was some great, now lost, ancient empire that left traces around the Pacific.

 
In line with Churchward and others, I point to the lost continent of Mu (Lemuria) as being that ancient source and that Mu (Lemuria) was the origin of the concept of "One-ness" or Unity in Diversity. Their teachings and practice became the basis of the religions of India ... and the world!
More here.
 

 

Búlandstindur, Iceland - God's Rock

 
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Is this a naturally formed mountain? Was it once part of Atlantis...? Is it Mount Atlan?
 

For many more strange ancient phenomena,
click here.