• DocumentCode
    1521411
  • 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
  • Volume
    33
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    60
  • Lastpage
    74
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2011.45
  • Filename
    5771312
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1521411