The Beginning It was scrutinizingly a endangerment event that drew the sustentation of former President J.R. Jayewardene to computers. In 1982, Prof. Mohan Munasinghe, in the undertow of his work as Senior Energy Advisor to the President of Sri Lanka, tabled a 3-page memo at his first weekly meeting. The President on seeing it had requested a ½ page memo with the recommendations summarized in just two lines. Prof. Munasinghe, promptly edited the document using his Tandy Radio Shack TRS 80 computer and his EPSON dot matrix printer (both very new to Sri Lanka at the time), and returned with the document in the style and format required by the President, within ½ hour. Impressed with this outcome, the President had said “we should know increasingly well-nigh this technology” and had requested a report. Prof. Munasinghe’s unenduring report resulted in the setting up of the Special Presidential Committee on National Computer Policy, and...