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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: The history of CS
Summary: Annals of the History of Computing
Message-ID: <4503@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 88 03:24:58 GMT
References: <990@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Organization: NC State Univ.
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In article <990@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>, lewis@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Bil Lewis) writes:
> 
>   One thing which I have missed in my education is any sense of
> history. ...
  
>   In this day and age of video, I would expect to see some of what I
> want in an easily digested form. ...
  
> -Bil

  Not a video, but easily digested describes many of the articles in
the journal cited above.  (It used to be an AFIPS journal, but got
taken over by Springer and the price went out of sight.)  Loads of
good articles, many pictures, good correspondence.  Take a look through
back issues (I would imagine most univ. libraries would have them) and
you might find it covers the history nicely.  (The Editor in Chief, 
Bernie Galler, is one of the very knowledgable people in computing, and
had a hand in creating quite a bit of the history in the field.)

--henry schaffer  n c state univ