> Are you publishing this research somewhere for all of us who will neither find nor read Punched Cards, vol 17? That's a really hard thing to answer. First of

> Are you publishing this research somewhere for all of us who will neither find nor read Punched Cards, vol 17? That's a really hard thing to answer. First off, there is a huge amount of literature on the topic. I just recently came across "Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880–1945", which is the generation before what I'm really interested in. So what will I be able to contribute, and why might what what I do stand out from the rest of the wealth of information already there? Even in my small field, there is decades of publication history by some very clever people - and some in German. I've got an overview now, and am fleshing out the details. That publication history includes many tellings or summarizing of the history. Of which quite a few are wrong in the details. For example, I yesterday read some papers from the early 1990s which said that the "connection table" (a graph theoretical model of a molecule) comes from the 1970s. When I can point to papers from the early 1960s which use the term, and people in the 1950s who were implementing the concept on a computer - the concept often comes before the name. Which means most of the history I want to publish will be deathly boring to someone like you who isn't in the field. I'm hoping for something a bit TAOCP-like, as nothing like that exists in my field.