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At 32 min she talks about a book called "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Microcomputers, but didn't know who to ask" by Slater. I found a reference o

At 32 min she talks about a book called "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Microcomputers, but didn't know who to ask" by Slater. I found a reference on archive but nothing more, also nothing on the author. Leland W. Slater, "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Microcomputers," Computop i cs . 3/82, pp. 38ff.

pdw 2y ago
Not a book, but a paper. I found two citations, but I can't find either version. Slater, L.W. (1982). Everything you ever wanted to know about microcomputers (but didn’t know WHO to ask). Navy Regional Data Automation Center Publ., Norfolk, Virginia, 19 pp. Leland W. Slater, "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Microcomputers," Computopics, 3/82, pp. 38ff. (Computopics appears to have been the magazine of the Washington DC chapter of the ACM.)
- erk__ 2y ago
  There seem to exist a copy at the University of Virginia, School of Nursing: https://nursing.virginia.edu/nursing-history/collections-cnhi/individual-collections/graham-collection/ https://nursing.virginia.edu/nursing-history/collections-cnh... So it may be possible to either ask them or go there and get a scan of it.
  - erk__ 2y ago
    I have sent them a mail about it and will update somewhere if I hear back. Update: I have heard back and should have a scan of it soon.
    - erk__ 2y ago
      I got sent the scan which was very nice of them. The paper is pretty interesting and contains some good information from the time. https://archive.org/details/slater-1982 https://archive.org/details/slater-1982
      - huppeldepup 2y ago
        That’s amazing, thank you very much.
- round-midnight 2y ago
  thanks for this, just found this via grace hopper
  - EvanAnderson 2y ago
    Me too. Thanks to everybody on the thread for posting this.
sword_smith 2y ago
the user "erk__" from this forum managed to get a copy: https://user.fm/files/v2-5bf26ed8f02e4cac68357e4ed895b3fc/Slater%20paper_1982_UVA%20Bjoring%20Center%20for%20Nursing%20Historical%20Inquiry.pdf https://user.fm/files/v2-5bf26ed8f02e4cac68357e4ed895b3fc/Sl...

pdw 2y ago

Not a book, but a paper. I found two citations, but I can't find either version. Slater, L.W. (1982). Everything you ever wanted to know about microcomputers (but didn’t know WHO to ask). Navy Regional Data Automation Center Publ., Norfolk, Virginia, 19 pp. Leland W. Slater, "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Microcomputers," Computopics, 3/82, pp. 38ff. (Computopics appears to have been the magazine of the Washington DC chapter of the ACM.)

erk__ 2y ago
There seem to exist a copy at the University of Virginia, School of Nursing: https://nursing.virginia.edu/nursing-history/collections-cnhi/individual-collections/graham-collection/ https://nursing.virginia.edu/nursing-history/collections-cnh... So it may be possible to either ask them or go there and get a scan of it.
- erk__ 2y ago
  I have sent them a mail about it and will update somewhere if I hear back. Update: I have heard back and should have a scan of it soon.
  - erk__ 2y ago
    I got sent the scan which was very nice of them. The paper is pretty interesting and contains some good information from the time. https://archive.org/details/slater-1982 https://archive.org/details/slater-1982
    - huppeldepup 2y ago
      That’s amazing, thank you very much.
round-midnight 2y ago
thanks for this, just found this via grace hopper
- EvanAnderson 2y ago
  Me too. Thanks to everybody on the thread for posting this.

sword_smith 2y ago

the user "erk__" from this forum managed to get a copy: https://user.fm/files/v2-5bf26ed8f02e4cac68357e4ed895b3fc/Slater%20paper_1982_UVA%20Bjoring%20Center%20for%20Nursing%20Historical%20Inquiry.pdf https://user.fm/files/v2-5bf26ed8f02e4cac68357e4ed895b3fc/Sl...