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Subject:Re: Article on origins of computer terminology? From:Liora Alschuler <LIORA -at- DELPHI -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 28 Oct 1993 11:28:26 -0400
Steven,
You might like the book "Technobabble" by John A. Barry MIT Press, 1991. (paper
back 1993.)
He starts:
"This paper-based, productized bookware module ..." the point being that if
you understand that, you understand technobabble. The book is serious and
funny and quite well research with good insight into the language we must
use to describe these machines, how it came into being, and why it is the
way it is.
I'd like to know if anyone else has read it and what their reactions are.
