Peripheral Vision: Bell Labs, the S-C 4020, and the Origins of Computer Art by Zabet Patterson

Peripheral Vision: Bell Labs, the S-C 4020, and the Origins of Computer Art

Platform Studies

Zabet Patterson

152 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction computer science history challenging informative slow-paced
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In 1959, the electronics manufacturer Stromberg-Carlson produced the S-C 4020, a device that allowed mainframe computers to present and preserve images. In the mainframe era, the output of text and image was quite literally peripheral; the S-C 402...

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