AFIPS Press

Ugh, disregard my last post, a quick Google for "AFIPS" found this: <http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/inv/cbi00044.html> Which has a bit of information about the history of AFIPS, including their full name -- the American Federation of Information Processing Societies. On that page, there's a note: COPYRIGHT: CBI holds the copyright to all materials in the collection, except for items covered by a prior copyright (such as published materials). Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code). (CBI being the Charles Babbage Institute -- <http://www.cbi.umn.edu/>) And to completely blow my final statement out of the water... The three founding societies of AFIPS were the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the Institute of Radio Engineers (the latter two eventually merged into the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers). *facepalm* There is a fair bit of AFIPS stuff on Bitsavers; mostly bibliographical data, but there are a few PDFs there too, containing what appear to be scans of conference proceedings... -- Phil. classiccmp at philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/