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When the IBM 1620 computer arrived at IIT Kanpur against all odds to open many windows

The earliest computer courses were started at IIT Kanpur in August 1963 on an IBM 1620 system. An excerpt from a new book #39;Against All Odds: The IT Story Of India#39;, by authors S Kris Gopalakrishnan, N Dayasindhu, Krishnan Narayanan, revisits the story of how many storms were braved to bring in the state-of-the-art machine and get the computer program started.

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