19 May
2010
19 May
'10
6:55 a.m.
On May 19, 2010, at 4:01 AM, Pierre Mounier wrote:
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 suspect that Joe November is monitoring this list and will chime in, but just in case, have your student read his dissertation, which has a wonderful chapter on the LINC, and also addresses the analog-digital divide. -Nathan -- Nathan Ensmenger History & Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania www.sas.upenn.edu/~nathanen