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* The [[wikipedia:IBM_7094|IBM 7090]]
* The [[wikipedia:IBM_7094|IBM 7090]]
** 32K addressable memory / $3M (in 1960s dollars!)
** 32K addressable memory / $3M (in 1960s dollars!)
** [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/7090.html See also.]
** See also [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/7090.html this] and [http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP7090.html this].
* Coding methods
* Coding methods
* Cultural Grammars
* Cultural Grammars

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Business

Recap

  • The transformational process
  • The canonical formula of myth

Segue

  • Taking Levi-Strauss seriously
  • Databases as representative of structure

Colby

  • General Inquirer System
  • The IBM 7090
    • 32K addressable memory / $3M (in 1960s dollars!)
    • See also this and this.
  • Coding methods
  • Cultural Grammars

Selby

Tobin

What is a computer?

Why the controversy?

  • The status of "codes"
  • Violence to texts

Themes

Text and Code

Heuristic vs Objectivist

Cybernetics of Interpretation

The Function and Image of the Database

Ontology vs. Discourse

HRAF

Observations