Stages of IT application in historical and cultural research
It was only at the end of the ë70s that some rare pioneers tried to use information technology as an aid to historical research, especially in processing quantitative sources. This was difficult, mainly because the tools and programs involved had been designed for statistical processing and even programmers were not flexible enough to handle sources which largely originated in an era which predated statistics.
For these reasons, precise historical research, which had to take into account even the tiniest nuance in the sources, laboured to reach computers, which at that time were still terminals with distant Calculation Centres, mostly unfathomable for historians.