Casinos and the Digitization of the Slot Machine, 1950–1989
Cristina Turdean · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 2011
The last 30 years marked the unprecedented expansion of the casino industry and advances in gambling technology, particularly the slot machine. The development of the digital slot machine demonstrates the ways in which the culture of the casino floor and the specifics of the mechanical machine shaped the evolution of its digital successor.