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When Computers Were Amateur
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
- IEEE Computer Society
- Volume 36, Number 2, April-June 2014
- pp. 4-14
- Article
- Additional Information
Attempting to illuminate the utility of amateurism for the history of computing, this article examines the records of the Amateur Computer Society (1966–1976), a hobbyist organization whose newsletters chronicle an important corner in the field. The author looks at both the discussion of schematics as a contested representation of amateur expertise and the crucial links between amateur practice and domesticity.