Dead Media Beat: Writers' computers

*Do nothing much while awaiting the miraculous invention of universal guidelines for rapidly decaying technologies scattered all over the map.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/books/16archive.html?sudsredirect=true

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Though computers have been commonly used for more than two decades, archives from writers who used them are just beginning to make their way into collections. Last week, for instance, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin, announced that it had bought the...