NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Ibm 650, Ferranti-Packard, High Tech
13 Oct 2012
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Computing in canada part 1: in the beginning. Informal and unedited notes, not for distribution. (c) z. stachniak, 2011-2012. Note: in cases i were unable to nd the primary source of an image or determine whether or not an image is copyrighted, i have speci ed the source as unknown . I will provide full information about images and/or obtain reproduction rights when such information is available to me. There has been a considerable e ort in many countries to set up cultural and research institutions to preserve for posterity computer artifacts that document the cultural history of the information age. The mission of these institutions is to showcase the outstanding contributions of these nations to the development of computer and information technologies. The list of such institutions is long and includes: the charles babbage institute (usa), the computer history museum (usa), the heinz nixdorf museumsforum (germany), german museum of tech- nology (germany), computer museum, achen (germany), the national.
