#Nudi kannada keyboard software software

We bought the Akruti Kannada DTP software from ACES consultants. We decided to do the DTP of our magazine ourselves. Sometimes the number of proofs given by them were as high as 11! At that time I had bought a PC at home utilizing the home PC loan of BARC (1989). It used to be very tough for the press people to get the magazine come out without any errors as ours was a technical magazine. We used to get our magazine printed from them. There were some Kannada printing presses in Mumbai.

We used to conduct science seminars in Kannada and publish a science magazine in Kannada by name “beLagu”. Kannada Sangha Anushakti Kendra is an organization by the Kannada scientists of BARC. I wrote programs for almost everything starting from simple X-Y plotting. Those days, very few packages were available like the kind you see nowadays. I wrote programs for automated experiments and then data processing. I was almost like a computer scientist or electronics engineer. I interfaced many laboratory instruments to PC. I was the first scientist to get a PC in the lab overtaking physicists and engineers. When PCs came in a big way in the year 1986, I brought in a PC culture to the scientist community of BARC. Scientists at the Physics Division were using computers. I was working in Chemistry Division of BARC. I wanted to use the computer but I realized that it is using me! Let me explain a bit of this. I have used all sorts of computers starting from card-punching variety! Computer was a tool for a scientist. Here it goes:Īfter my MSc (Chemistry) from Mysore Univ, I joined BARC, Mumbai, as a scientist in the year 1981. If I have to give the complete picture of my involvements with these, I need to start from my BARC days. Thanks a lot for your relentless efforts towards cleansing the mess created in Kannada software scenario.