Peripheral vision : Bell Labs, the S-C 4020, and the origins of computer art / Zabet Patterson.

"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 S-C 4020 -- a strange and elaborate apparatus, with a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via IEEE)
Main Author: Patterson, Zabet (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]
Series:Platform studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • What Was a Microfilm Plotter?
  • Art Ex Machina
  • Studies in Perception
  • Poemfields
  • Pixillation
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index.