[net.general] Calling Academic Humanists on Usenet

wa277@sdcatta.UUCP (David Sewell) (06/23/84)

I've just received "A Grin on the Interface: Word Processing for the
Academic Humanist," ed. Alan T. McKenzie, the first volume of the series
"Technology and the Humanities" being published by the Modern Language
Association of America (MLA).  It's a worthwhile and readable attempt to
push historians and English professors into the computer age.  One
sentence, in a section on computer networking, caught my eye:
  "We have sometimes found ourselves wishing for a network connecting
  all humanists enlightened by the phosphorescent glow of the CRT."
It set me to wondering how many of us there are