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.