Software and Souls; Programs and Packages.

The author discusses the challenges software poses to historians. Topics covered include the divide between hardware and software, the display of computer software in museums and archives, the problems being faced by curators and archivists in exhibiting computer software in museums, the platform st...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 9; pp. 31 - 35
Autor principal: Haigh, Thomas
Formato: Opinion
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Sep2013
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        Computer software
        Historians
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