The Hard Disk as the new Paper Archive: opportunities and challenges for historical research into the Information Age
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Deck for a talk I gave at Digital History Seminar, University of Cambridge, 23 February 2016. Notes at https://gist.github.com/drjwbaker/db1815e36ab64eb1a074
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