Beschreibung
The Commodore 64 is the most signifi cant computer of its era. From 1982 to 1994, a total of 27 million units were soldmore than any other computer from a single manufacturer a erwards. Due to its widespread use as well as its technical features, the C64 has a huge international followingeven to this day. The 19 contributions compiled in this book illustrate the signifi cance of the platform for the digitalization of society, the general publics computer science knowledge, as well as digital art and cultureboth in the past, present, and also in the future. Volume 5 of the 'Computer Archaeology' series is partly based on the conference of the same name held in 2024 at the University of Bonn and has here been supplemented with additional contributions from the fi elds of artifi cial intelligence, quantum computing, and digital humanities.
Autorenporträt
Stefan Höltgen, PhD, ScD, researches BASIC programming cultures within the framework of a DFG project at the University of Bonn. He teaches and conducts research in the fi elds of computer archaeology, game science, and unconventional computing. Torsten Roeder, Dr. phil., Digital Humanities scholar and curator of the Retro Computing Lab at the Center for Philology and Digitality at the University of Würzburg. His research focuses on historical periodicals, zines, born digital heritage, and scholarly digital editions of multimodal and hybrid content. Jens Schröter, Prof. Dr., is chair for media studies at the University of Bonn since 2015. Main research interests: History and Theory of Digital Media, History and Theory of Photography, Media of the Future and Future Media.
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