The MIT Museum has both an original LINC and the DEC LINC computers in its collections. Prof. Joseph November (Univ. South Carolina) studied them rather extensively for his dissertation (and fothcoming book about computers and biomedical research). I would encourage contact with Joe. Debbie Douglas Deborah G. Douglas, Ph.D. Curator of Science and Technology MIT Museum, N51-209 265 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 tel. 617-253-1766 | fac. 617-253-8994 | ddouglas@mit.edu http://web.mit.edu/museum | http://museum.mit.edu/150 On May 19, 2010, at 4:01 AM, Pierre Mounier wrote:
Hello,
One of our students is studying the early use of electronic computers in neurophysiology, and has hit upon a 1967 controversy between Experimental/ Analogue and Digital approaches, when DEC LINCs were installed. What reading would you recommend on this topic ? (I remember James Small addressed this controversy in his dissertation, some 20 years ago - and so did, more recently, Paul Edwards in "The Closed World")
Thanks ! Pierre Mounier-Kuhn
CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne 28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris
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