Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdcatta.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdcatta!wa277 From: wa277@sdcatta.UUCP (David Sewell) Newsgroups: net.general Subject: Calling Academic Humanists on Usenet Message-ID: <1122@sdcatta.UUCP> Date: Sat, 23-Jun-84 01:31:16 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcatta.1122 Posted: Sat Jun 23 01:31:16 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 05:38:45 EDT Organization: U.C. San Diego, Computer Center Lines: 9 I've just received "A Grin on the Interface: Word Processing for the Academic Humanist," ed. Alan T. McKenzie, the first volume of the series "Technology and the Humanities" being published by the Modern Language Association of America (MLA). It's a worthwhile and readable attempt to push historians and English professors into the computer age. One sentence, in a section on computer networking, caught my eye: "We have sometimes found ourselves wishing for a network connecting all humanists enlightened by the phosphorescent glow of the CRT." It set me to wondering how many of us there are