Promoting the prosaic: The case for process-control computers

Jonathan Aylen

doi:10.1109/MAHC.2010.53

Promoting the prosaic: The case for process-control computers

Jonathan Aylen

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Abstract

Computers brought automation to industries such as chemicals, steel, and power generation during the 1960s. Real-time control of major industrial processes was achieved using Cold War hardware. © 1992 IEEE.

Original language	English
Article number	5551030
Pages (from-to)	94-96
Number of pages	2
Journal	IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Volume	32
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MAHC.2010.53
Publication status	Published - Jul 2010

Keywords

automation
chemicals
cold war
computers
History of computing
power generation
process control
steel
strip mill

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Promoting the prosaic: The case for process-control computers

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