[SIGCIS-Members] petroleum and computers

[Deborah Douglas]

Colleagues,

Recently, I received a question about a claim that the petroleum- 
seeking geophysics industry was once the greatest consumer of  
computers, only surpassed at some later point by the federal  
government.  No citation was given and there is quite a bit of  
skepticism but where would you advise us to look to refute this claim  
(or perhaps my own aerospace bias is too strong and the claim is true!).

Thanks,

Debbie Douglas


Deborah G. Douglas, Ph.D.
Curator of Science and Technology
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