@article{bibcite_10087,
  author = {James Sumner},
  title = {Making Computers Boring: Thoughts on Historical Exhibition of Computing Technology from the Mass-Market Era},
  abstract = {<p>Computer history displays in museum galleries and exhibitions traditionally focus on iconic machines and progressive lineages of hardware production. This approach has been widely criticized as unrepresentative of computing{\textquoteright}s wider context but is, in any case, becoming increasingly awkward as historical attention turns to the era of small, cheap, undistinguished personal computers and standardized networking. This article presents a range of more user-focused display approaches for consideration. In particular, the author address the value and practicalities of period set dressing for hardware and hands-on interaction with software and call for greater hybridization between approaches devised for static galleries and for mobile displays.</p>},
  year = {2016},
  journal = {Information \& Culture},
  volume = {51},
  pages = {29-53},
  language = {English},
}