2: The Instrument of Transformation 1988–1992

Chapter 2 of my 2005 PhD Thesis ‘A Journey of Integration’

Sue Thomas
22 min readMar 11, 2020

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The Instrument of Transformation 1988–1992

I learnt to use a computer in 1985 as part of a B.A. Hons degree in Humanities¹. Prior to that my only intimate experience with complex mechanisms had been using a manual knitting machine, with…

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