Code and Character: Breaking Barriers in Early Computing
Episode 2 — Code and Character: Breaking Barriers in Early Computing with Allan Klein
What did it mean to enter the world of computers when the machines filled entire rooms — and access to those rooms was shaped by apartheid?
In this episode of The Bruin-ou Podcast, Allan Klein takes us back to growing up in Benoni and coming of age in a South Africa where race, work and opportunity were tightly prescribed.
He reflects on family, identity, ambition and the early days of computing — a world of mainframes, punch cards and careers that were not easily open to Coloured people. Allan’s journey…
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