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From: pml@usl.UUCP (Patrick Landry)
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Subject: looking for computer intro text for history majors
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 17:39:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 17:39:10 1985
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This is a very odd request but I know that you net-people will 
know the answer if there is one.

My wife is a history major. The research class she is currently 
taking is using a text called "The Historian and the Computer".
It is a very well written text giving the non-computer person an
introduction into what a computer is good for, how to enter data,
how to find  a competent programmer, etc. The only problem is that
the book was written in 1971 and is outdated. Judging from the
small portions I read it was outdated shortly after going to press.

The intro to the book gives good clues as to its purpose
"to guide historians in working with computers..."
" This guide should permit the historian whose previous experience 
  has been confined solely to Plain Old History to use modern
  electronic techniques"

If it isn't obvious by now, I am looking for a more recent text.
Any help would be extremely helpful to my wife.

Please respond directly to me as I do not subscribe to net.books and
this is of limited interest I am sure. Thanks alot.
                     ---pat---
                                      Patrick Landry
ut-sally \                            University of Southwestern Louisiana
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