For those of you who 1) are interested in the history of computing and 2) read
German, there is an enormously interesting new book available:
Axel Roch. Claude E. Shannon - Spielzeug, Leben und die geheime Geschichte
seiner Theorie der Information, Berlin: Gegenstalt-Verlag, 2010.
Roch is the man who recently elucidated the history of the [monitor] mouse in
surprising ways, tracing its use back to pre-PC air-traffic control terminals;
and he writes very well indeed.
John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA
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