Dear colleagues, 

I am happy to announce the latest issue of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing is now available online. Entitled ‘Communication and Commerce’, it is a regular issue comprising research articles and department pieces on a variety of topics. You can find the issue in the CDSL or Xplore. Please find the table of contents below. 

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Research article
Netnews: The Origin Story
A Compelling Image: The Tower of Babel and the Proliferation of Programming Languages During the 1960s
Mechanical Numeracy: Thinking With the Soroban Abacus in Modern Japan
Presence of IBM Data Processing Equipment in Latin America, 1920s–1980s, and Insights for Historians
Department: Anecdotes 
Big Baggy Shorts: Recovering Data From Canada’s Telidon System

Department: Think Piece 
In Defense of Model-Makers: Adding a New Point to the Computer Conservation Continuum
Department: Events And Sightings 
A Special Year at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
by David Woitkowski

Best,

Dr. Troy Kaighin Astarte (they/them / nhw) 

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Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe 
Editor-in-Chief / Prif Olygydd, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
 
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