History

I love history (History of Computing, History of Myanmar Engineering Education …).

Why should we study History?

Saya Dr. Than Tun said, “So that one would not be stupid or dumb.”

There’s an old adage, “History repeats itself”.

A historian presents facts. He should not give his opinion.

The historian from Smithsonian said, “There is no single correct history. There are often multiple competing histories.”

I am grateful to my spouse, who said “You should pay back to your alma mater and your country.”

Saya U Tin Maung Nyunt said that I should record my oral stories and put them to print for posterity. Sayamagyi from UCSY asked me if I could help for a commemorative issue of the 30th Anniversary of ICST/UCSY.

My beloved parents said, “Any thing that’s worth doing is worth doing well”.

I have shared my memories about the early days of Computing in Burma. I hope that the readers will help “fill in the blanks” and correct errors and inconsistencies in my posts.

Collectively, we can turn the posts into a reasonably good document worthy of printing (or at least publish as an e-book).

The readers should suggest topics that I should add or elaborate.

Dr. TOKM wrote :

When we conducted the Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality Study, the data analysis was from me at UCC. Ko Ronnie Myo Min and many UCC staff helped us with the data analysis.

The next project we did was “Risk Approach in Delivery of MCH Care”. We did a prospective study on the risk of mothers dying during pregnancy and child birth. As the outcome was measured by “relative risk” and “absolute risk” it was much easier to analyse the data.

Our team used 1MB handheld Sinclair computer for our study. Our team did not have monitors nor printers. Your nephew Peter (Khin Tun) worked out RR and AR on Sinclair, read the result on Saya U Tin U’s old TV and copied out the results by hand. Peter still had a copy of the final report. I left my copy at home and got lost.