Larry Anderson & Diane Hare wrote:
>
> This weekend's recent finds netted me two books:
>
> The first is called Computers and Man, by Richard C. Dorf, published by
> Boyd and Fraser Publishing Co. in 1974.
> It looks like it could have been a college text at one time. The
> real notable part is it is loaded with alot of pictures of earlier
> machines and computers from the late 60s and early 70s (such as a
> picture of an IBM 2321 strip file, which I think was mentioned here a
> few months back.). also a good description of core memory (which I have
> been searching for to go with my core memory board I won at VCF.)
It was indeed used as a college textbook. Bought mine in 1978 at the
Foothill Community College bookstore for the three-credit survey of
data processing course. That was half of my "formal" education in
computers. (The other half used Henry Mullish's _A Basic Approach to
BASIC_, which was quite specific to the HP-2000A that at the time was
the school's only student-accessible computer).
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
Received on Mon Feb 23 1998 - 22:43:28 GMT