I'm doing the final proofing of "Sociologists Engaging with Computers" which should appear this April in _Social Science Computing Review_. It's an intro piece to the issue's focus on the history of our Communication & Information Technology section of the American Sociological Association. As such, it has a bit of computing history in it. I was astonished that when the copyeditor read my reference to the DEC PDP (hallowed be its name), she changed it to "Programmed Data Processors". Ever since it arrived in William James Hall (Harvard) in the mid-1960s,it's been the PDP. In fact, I had to Google now to see that yes, this is the literal full name of the thing -- which nobody ever used. Dealing with copyeditors is always a tug of war. I've left the expansion of CPU and RAM go, but darn-it, a PDP is a PDP. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________