ABSTRACT
As access and availability to computers increased, one way that former users of the various analogue aids could satisfy their computational needs was by writing simple programs of their own. The dawning of the new digital age heralded the beginning of fast, accurate, computation on demand. Accompanying this change, a number of programs for several of the more widely used computer programming languages and devices began to appear. With functionality, accuracy, and speed far beyond anything an analogue aid could provide, the latter's fate was all but sealed as the emerging digital revolution swept all before it. With all the new-found computational power at one's fingertips, it was inevitable that pocket calculators would quickly supersede the nomograms, slide rules, and tables of old. An early example of a computer program for calculating quantities associated with blackbody radiation was given by Donald C. Todd in 1968.
