According to his former students, Nicholas Handy, John Pople and Isaiah Shavitt, during the 1959 Conference on Molecular Quantum Mechanics held in Boulder Colorado 2 , Samuel F. Boys "[...] produced a paper tape of his whole computer program and unrolled it along the length of the chemical lecture bench. There, in one roll, was something, of which one could ask a chemical question at one end and it would produce an answer at the other! ... most of the audience probably thought the demonstration bizarre. But it was prescient"