In the late 20th century iconic ‘first computers’ have been rebuilt at several locations across the world. Using the historiographical insights of authors such as Lowenthal, this papers examines what the acts of recreating past machines tell us about relations with the past, history and memory. A distinction is suggested between two modes of history highly relevant to historians of technology: one centred on texts, the other on recapturing spirit.
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Jon Agar (1998) studied this question.
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