Notes:
But getting back to the 60's, after working on the Ural for a year, in 1965 I gained access to an offspring of Dask, the Gier. It is only recently that I become aware that the Ural and Gier - my very first two computers - were in fact second cousins. The family resemblance was fading a little: Gier had 42 bit words because of two new flag bits were added and it could have one 40 bit or two 20 bit instructions per word, so at the time I did not notice anything unusual - I thought all computers looked like that.
The people in front of Gier were very important to its history. On the left we see NIB, the director of Regnecentralen, a major visionary force in Danish computing in the 60s. On the right, Professor Peter Naur, the great Danish computer scientist, the editor of the incredibly influential Algol 60 report and the designer of the Gier Algol compiler.