I received a shock last month. Forty years ago I wrote a book called An Introduction
to Educational Computing, and now the publishers have written saying that they want to
republish it in its original form as part of a programme to revive some of their key titles.
Their reason is that they believe these titles “very much reflect the context of the times in
which they were published. For newer libraries, it represents a chance to build up where,
for various political or economic reasons, library holdings have been neglected in the past
50 years but budgets are still strong.”
Well, this was all very flattering but it was a surprise none the less! I have a copy on
my bookshelf but I had not opened it for many years. It was time to re-read it and see
whether it was as dated as I suspected it was.