Title :
Personal Computers, Microhistory, and Shared Authority: Documenting the Inventor–Early Adopter Dialectic
Author :
Galloway, Patricia
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
Documenting the history of computers is complex because it requires not only documents but hardware, software, people, memories, and practice, together with an understanding of the information ecology that they constitute. An example from the author´s own history with personal computers explores how these kinds of evidence are generated and how they might be gathered into archives for historical research.
Keywords :
document handling; history; humanities; information retrieval systems; microcomputers; computer history documentation; historical research; information ecology; inventor early adopter dialectic; microhistory; personal computer; shared authority; Computers; Hardware; History; Information technology; Research and development; Software; Kaypro II; Personal computers; digital archiving; hardware; history of computing; microcomputers; people; software;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MAHC.2011.45
