John's computing experience

School [BASIC, FORTRAN II, 6502 assembler, COBOL]

I was one of the first computer users in our school. We had an Apple II, and a small group of us (myself included) interfaced that to an ASR33 teletype. The school let us do an external A-level in Computer Science, at CCAT (now Anglia Polytechnic University). I spent some of my spare time designing a microcoded CPU architecture, which of course I didn't have the resources to build.

Graphical Software Limited [BCPL, x86 assembler, PERQ microcode]

A small company writing operating systems, tools and a word processor. I worked here in my gap year, between school and university. This is where I first did any commercial programming.

Cambridge University [BCPL, Pascal, Modula-3, 370 assembler, Lisp, Snobol, Zed, FORTRAN, COBOL]

Here I did my first degree in computer science.

Imperial Software Technology [Orion Microcode]

A vac job between first and second degrees.

Bath University [Lisp, C, BCPL]

I did my PhD here.

Harlequin [Lisp, C, PostScript, Shell, Make, C++]

I worked here for about 10 years.

Unigraphics [C]

I worked here for two years.

The Sanger Institute [C]

I worked here for a year, and was then dismissed because of my RSI.

University of Limerick [Lisp, Prolog, Java]

I was a postdoctoral research fellow on the project B4-step in the Computer Science and Information Systems Department at the University of Limerick in Ireland. I then went on to work on some Irish-language-related computing projects.

[Work] John C. G. Sturdy

Last modified: Sun Oct 21 23:01:32 IST 2007