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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 09:43:08 +0000
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
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Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Ross Hamilton <ross@DCS.WARWICK.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: CM>History of Computing texts
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Keith Reid-Green wrote:
>>I suggest that any good computer history text should begin with a survey of number notation, including, say, Mayan and Ancient Egyptian, and another survey of interesting calculating machinery
[...]
>>Now, where does an author stop?
[...]
>>I would
>>stop a computer history at 1965, when the so-called Third Generation, integrated circuit computers, were announced. Not a word about the upstart personal computer...
Michael Williams replied:
>Well, I think that Keith's ideas and mine are VERY much alike.
I find it hard to believe that two historians would even consider stopping short of the most significant and influential development in computing technology. Why the anti-PC stance?
Ross
.----- Ross Hamilton, Analyst/Programmer, Part-time PhD student ------. | http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~ross | mailto:R.Hamilton@cm-net.co.uk | | Department of Computer Science, | 12 Newbold Place, Leamington | | Uni. of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL | Spa, Warwks, CV32 4HR, UK |
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
Keith Reid-Green wrote:
>>I suggest that any good computer history text should begin with a survey of number notation, including, say, Mayan and Ancient Egyptian, and another survey of interesting calculating machinery
[...]
>>Now, where does an author stop?
[...]
>>I would
>>stop a computer history at 1965, when the so-called Third Generation, integrated circuit computers, were announced. Not a word about the upstart personal computer...
Michael Williams replied:
>Well, I think that Keith's ideas and mine are VERY much alike.
I find it hard to believe that two historians would even consider stopping short of the most significant and influential development in computing technology. Why the anti-PC stance?
Ross
.----- Ross Hamilton, Analyst/Programmer, Part-time PhD student ------. | http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~ross | mailto:R.Hamilton@cm-net.co.uk | | Department of Computer Science, | 12 Newbold Place, Leamington | | Uni. of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL | Spa, Warwks, CV32 4HR, UK |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------| | Corsellis-Montford, 194 Old Brompton Road, London |
`------------- Office: 0171 370 0400 | Home: 01926 886146 ------------'
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