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Platform Studies eBook Series

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  • Peripheral Vision

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

    by Zabet Patterson ...
    Series series Platform Studies
    How the S-C 4020—a mainframe peripheral intended to produce scientific visualizations—shaped a series of early computer art projects that emerged from Bell Labs.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 ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD