A view from 20 year as a historian of computing

The author´s reflections go back to the late 1970s when the electronic, stored program was itself only a few decades old and the challenge, in the history of computing field, was to convey computer history´s significance and reach. The contemporary challenge is to maintain historical standards, objectivity, and distance while keeping abreast of technology´s rapid changes. To survive, the field must also defend that the study of computing is separate from the computing that permeates modern life via the Web.