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Step forward in creating a new digital medium was the development of the screen as a new writing surface. Actually seeing a screen, attached to a computer, glowing with dots that were constantly refreshed and thus able to be manipulated and rearranged must have been one of the physical experiences that prepared researchers to understand that a computer would have graphical potential. The first computer to have such a screen appears to be Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) built for Cambridge University in England in 1949. Three cathode ray tubes were built into the interface, the screens monitored the content of the computer's registers, and memory; this was the amongst the first Computers to use a memory to store its programmes. ~ Page 303

Though we can go back to Descartes to find philosophers who believed that mathematics and geometry might provide for a kind of thinking that was pure and precise, it was George Boole, a young mathematician from Lincoln, who put flesh on the idea. In 1833, when he was just seventeen years old, he had what he described as a mystical experience. Whilst walking through a meadow he became convinced that his vocation in life was to explain the logic of human thought in symbolic or algebraic form. It was Boole's lifetime of thinking that was picked up by the first computer scientists in the middle of the twentieth century. ~ Page 302

Probably the ultimate symbol of this obsession of physical control was the so called 'talantograph' a ligature use to tie the hand into proper writing position. Thus bound it was impossible rest the hand and arm as they executed a long series of character-strengthening exercises. Victorians were drawn to binding to all manner of problems,. . . . . as a literal rendering of their obsession with the mastery of the body. . . . . . Excerpt: "Handwriting in America - A Cultural History ~ Tamera P.Thornton