The Barbara L. Kevles collection of computer technology of the 1990s.

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The Barbara L. Kevles collection of computer technology of the 1990s.

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Published and unpublished documents, software, and miscellaneous equipment reflecting the rapid evolution of home computer technology from 1993 through 2006. The collection includes guides, manuals, installation software, historic Norton newsletters, hand-written notebooks, correspondence, demonstration trial software -- all for precedent-setting operating systems, early program applications, analog monitors, seminal printers, modems, motherboards, internet service providers, financial software, and antivirus programs.

2.5 linear ft.

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8130923

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Kevles, Barbara L.

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Journalist and author Barbara Kevles used the same personal computer from1993 through 2006. During those fourteen years she added only a few essential programs such as financial and security software because the restrictions placed by the PC's miniscule 170 megabyte hard drive. Out of necessity, she kept her operating system, monitor, and printer manuals as well as allied materials to operate her computer and fix periodic malfunctions as the radically changing computer world replaced her platfor...

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