online archive exhibition

BACKGROUND, Field, Context, Research Question The experience of home computing did not follow the same patterns everywhere and the particularities of place and culture matter. The arrival of home computing did not occur in a uniform way, with different platforms, access and cultural understandings of computing rolling out in different countries. It is important to pay attention to local points of difference in the stories of early computing that they reveal that the history of technology, whilst in part global, is also culturally specific Microcomputing and Memory is a curated site to discuss and capture memories of early microcomputing, in Australia and Korea in the 1980s. This cross-cultural project is a participatory archive of experiences and memories of early popular computing, exploring similarities and differences in the reception of early computers between these two countries. Drawing on the development of the Play it Again Popular Memory Archive postdoctoral Researcher Dr Stuckey and Assoc Prof Melanie Swalwell at Flinders University worked collaboratively with postdoctoral researcher Dr Dongwon Jo, recipient of an Endeavour Scholarship to develop a bilingual online archive addressing microcomputing culture in Korea and Australia CONTRIBUTION, Innovation, New Knowledge Mircocomputing and Memory: explored new models for researching computing history working with diverse user communities online; demonstrated the differing cultural contexts of home computing and collected memories and contributions from early users generating new knowledge. SIGNIFICANCE, Evidence of Excellence The Project was funded through Endeavour Funding and through Assoc Prof Swalwell's ARC Future Fellowship. Collaborator Dr Dongwon Jo was later awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship from the Korean National Research Foundation to further his research into early computing culture in Korea. http://creativemicrocomputing.org/memories/