Christopher “Kit” Pullen, ’61, came to Queen’s from Oakville in 1957 to study mechanical engineering. He planned to work in the field after he graduated. Everything was going according to plan until one day in his final year.
“I still recall sitting in my thermodynamics class,” says Pullen, who is coming back to Queen’s this weekend to take part in Spring Reunion, “when [Engineering] Dean Conn, our professor, told us that the university just got its first computer.”
Dean Conn then showed Pullen and his classmates the new Bendix G-15 computer. Produced by Bendix, a manufacturer of washing machines, the computer stood 5 by 3 feet, and weighed a staggering 950 lbs. It cost $60,000. The computer was housed in Richardson Hall.
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