Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!akgua!akgub!usl!pml From: pml@usl.UUCP (Patrick Landry) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: looking for computer intro text Message-ID: <658@usl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 17:39:58 EST Article-I.D.: usl.658 Posted: Mon Nov 4 17:39:58 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 04:55:19 EST Organization: USL, Lafayette, LA Lines: 27 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 The only problem is that the book was written in 1971 and is outdated. Judging from the small portions I read it was outdated shortly after going to press.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 !usl!pml akgua / LandryPM%usl@csnet-relay.ARPA