Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Queensland Museum recently hosted a remarkable reunion between a man and a machine that helped shape his future.
Alan Grummitt, who was among the first to operate Queensland’s very first computer, the General Electric GE-225, returned for a special behind-the-scenes visit to view the historic system in the State Collection. Installed at The University of Queensland in 1962, the GE-225 cost the equivalent of $3 million today and marked a turning point in Queensland’s technological story - ushering in the digital age and pioneering formal computing education in the state.
The computer was donated to Queensland Museum by UQ in 1977 following its decommissioning and now forms part of the State Collection telling the story of its role in Queensland’s story.
Archival footage:
© The University of Queensland, 1962.
Courtesy of The University of Queensland Archives
Queensland Museum recently hosted a remarkable reunion between a man and a machine that helped shape his future.
Alan Grummitt, who was among the first to operate Queensland’s very first computer, the General Electric GE-225, returned for a special behind-the-scenes visit to view the historic system in the State Collection. Installed at The University of Queensland in 1962, the GE-225 cost the equivalent of $3 million today and marked a turning point in Queensland’s technological story - ushering in the digital age and pioneering formal computing education in the state.
The computer was donated to Queensland Museum by UQ in 1977 following its decommissioning and now forms part of the State Collection telling the story of its role in Queensland’s story.
Archival footage:
© The University of Queensland, 1962.
Courtesy of The University of Queensland Archives
