<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">forgot to copy this on user manuals to the whole membership<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Murray Turoff</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:murray.turoff@gmail.com">murray.turoff@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 6:13 PM<br>Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Anyone working the history of computer manuals?<br>To: Thomas Haigh <<a href="mailto:thaigh@computer.org">thaigh@computer.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">A lot of work in the early days was oriented to single page manuals.<br></div><div style="font-size:small">There is some good examples in the book The Network Nation: Human Communication via computers by hiltz and turoff 1978 and 1993 reprinted.<br></div><div style="font-size:small">A number of manuals for some vary complicated user systems were done on the EIES system from 1974 to 1990. The detailed manuals and descriptions of some of the user oriented communication systems are free from the NJIT library at <br><a href="http://library.njit.edu/archives/cccc-materials/index.php" target="_blank">http://library.njit.edu/archives/cccc-materials/index.php</a><br></div><div style="font-size:small">there are reports with user guiders from 1972 to 1995 and some specific user manuals.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Thomas Haigh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thaigh@computer.org" target="_blank">thaigh@computer.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hello SIGCIS,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have an interesting request from Angela Creager, a professor at Princeton, who is wondering if anyone out there is working on computer manuals. My impression is that she is looking for historical or STS work with manuals as a focus, rather than archival or preservation efforts. If you, or someone you know, is taking this approach then please let her know. Contact detail is Angela N. Creager <a href="mailto:creager@princeton.edu" target="_blank">creager@princeton.edu</a>.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Tom<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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