28 May
2000
28 May
'00
8:06 a.m.
At 06:48 PM 5/26/00 -0700, you wrote:
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Mark Gregory wrote:
Hmmm... that starts to sound interesting... Perhaps a topic.
-jim
BTW: (unmerciful ping) Talked to Dag lately? B^}
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It seems to me that increasingly, social
historians and museums are more
interested in _how_ an artifact was used than in the thing itself. But
often , especially when I receive multiple examples of the same system, I
mix and match parts and programs to suit myself, and lose track of which
disk drive came with which CPU, which software was originally installed on
each, etc. Information is obviously being lost here.
I'd be interested to know what other list members are doing, and how
important you think the information being lost is.
In fact, this is a subject I have been thinking about recently and I'm
hoping to commission a talk for the next VCF. Any takers?