19.236 history of personal computing

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 236.
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         Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:32:23 +0100
         From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: history of personal computing

Those interested in the history of computing will appreciate the
keynote address by Gordon Bell, "Toward a history of (personal)
workstations", the paper by Stuart Card and Thomas Moran, "User
Technology: From Pointing to Pondering" and others in the ACM
Conference on the History of Personal Workstations (1986), including
those by Licklider and Englebart. The collection is in the ACM
Digital Library, www.acm.org/dl/, and in print under ISBN 0-89791-176-8.

Yours,
WM

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