This is just to advertise my just-published book on computing in French research and higher education : http://pups.paris-sorbonne.fr/pages/aff_livre.php?Id=838 Best, Pierre E. Mounier-Kuhn CNRS & Université Paris-Sorbonne 28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris A "big science" transfer (1967). Moving the NCR-Elliott 4130 of the Institut Blaise-Pascal to the new science faculty at Orsay, as seen by an assistant of the lab.