Un peu de l'histoire de l'unité BIA ...

MONROE

Calculateur amené de l'unité de Biométrie de Nancy lors de la création de l'unité Biométrie à Toulouse (1975).

FACIT

Calculateur amené de l'unité de Biométrie de Nancy lors de la création de l'unité Biométrie à Toulouse (1975).

olivetti

Calculateur amené de l'unité de Biométrie de Nancy lors de la création de l'unité Biométrie à Toulouse (1975).
Machine du secrétariat les premières années de l'unité.

SHARP

Machine à calculer du secrétariat dans les années 80.

SUN

Premier serveur UNIX de l'unité, appelé ossau (en référence à un célèbre sommet pyrénéen !).

DELL

Premier serveur de la plateforme bioinformatique de Toulouse, appelé atg (en référérence au code nucléique).

D'autres histoires ...

Computer was once a job title. Computers were people: men and women sitting at office desks performing calculations by hand, or with mechanical calculators. The work was repetitive, slow, and boring. The results were often unreliable.

The computer is one of our greatest technological inventions. Its impact is -or will be- judged comparable to the wheel, the steam engine, and the printing press. But here's the magic that makes it special: it isn't designed to do a specific thing. It can do anything. It is a universal machine.

History places us in time. The computer has altered the human experience, and changed the way we work, what we do at play, and even how we think. A hundred years from now, generations whose lives have been unalterably changed by the impact of automating computing will wonder how it all happened -and who made it happen. If we lose that history, we lose our cultural heritage.