Debbie: I passed your query on to Eric Weiss, who worked for one of the major oil companies in those days. Eric has been somewhat hard to get hold of, but last I heard he is OK and living comfortably in Hawaii. If anyone on the list has more recent news, perhaps you could let me know (off-list). Paul E. Ceruzzi, MRC 311, National Air and Space Museum, PO Box 37012, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012. phone: 202-633-2414. -----Original Message----- From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [mailto:members-bounces@sigcis.org] On Behalf Of Deborah Douglas Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 6:47 PM To: members@sigcis.org Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] petroleum and computers 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 MIT Museum, N51-209 265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 ddouglas@mit.edu * 617-253-1766 phone * 617-253-8994 fax http://web.mit.edu/museum * http://webmuseum.mit.edu * http://museum.mit.edu/150 _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members