>> In the '50's, computer science did not exist officially at the >>science-intensive institution of MIT
Although the ACM was founded in 1947, the first student chapter wasn't formed until 1960. I once took an assembly language programming class that was taught by someone who'd been programming computers in the 1950s. His descriptions of that era sounded as though programmers were members of a small select group or club. He knew a 'member' in El Paso, a few in Boston and D.C. and so on. It sounded like there were so few that he knew most people in the US who were programming. How many computers were there? The IBM 1401, introduced in 1958, was IBM's most popular mid-sized computer. IBM sold 13,000 over the next eight years. Ken North ________________ www.kncomputing.com Twitter: @knorth2 Digg: knorth2 _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
