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.
