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A Jackson Pollock painting? Not quite—it's a circa 1988 circuit board for a
DPS8000 mainframe computer, currently on display in the Kresge Physical Sciences Library
exhibition, Count on It: Two Hundred Years of Computing. The exhibition, which
includes items from Dartmouth's Allen King Collection of Historic Scientific
Instruments, follows the evolution of computing as a function performed by
people ("computer" used to be a job description) to one performed by
analog and digital machines. Also on display is a slideshow of archival
photographs illustrating the use of computational tools at Dartmouth.
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