Random War by Charles Csuri and James Shaffer 1967

Idea and programme by Charles Csuri and James Shaffer at Ohio State University.

A programme designed to simulate an imaginary war. By entering different input, like weapons, military ranks,type of terrain etc the computer was able to predict the outcome of such a war. This was done before PC:s were used for war-games.

The poster was shown at the ICA exhibition inLondon 1967

The poster is in red and black (the photo is only black)

Motif Edition No. ME/02/6