Dr. Erhard Eppler and Mr. C. Subramaniam during the Computer Centre inauguration, 1973
Inaugurations , Visiting VIPs
The Computer Centre was inaugurated on 17 November. It was located in the Building Science Block (BSB) at the time, and the IBM 370 occupied most of the first floor of the BSB throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Dr. Eppler was the Minister for Economic Co-operation for the Federal Republic of Germany while Mr. Subramaniam was the Union Minister for Industrial Development and Science and Technology. Mr. Subramaniam had previously visited IIT Madras in 1961, when he came as chief guest to the Second Institute Day.
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