At 06:48 PM 5/26/00 -0700, you wrote:
>On Fri, 26 May 2000, Mark Gregory wrote:
>
>> 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?
Hmmm... that starts to sound interesting... Perhaps a topic.
-jim
BTW: (unmerciful ping) Talked to Dag lately? B^}
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