[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

I wonder what fraction of early (before, say, 1955) computer work was done in the USA. A substantial fraction no doubt, but perhaps not as large as one might guess. A related question would be how much work was done outside the USA and UK. For that matter, similar questions could be asked about the amount of documentation preserved from various countries. One difficulty, I think, is that resources like bitsavers have a large proportion of US material. Maybe because of the predominance of the work, maybe in part because of the distribution of collectors. To pick one example, material -- even just a passing reference -- about the Philips PR8000 is very nearly nonexistent. And I see no trace of any other Dutch computer at all on Bitsavers. True, some stuff can be found in places like the CWI archive, though searching that can be rather painful. paul