TG Technikgeschichte

In academic and public discourses, practices of repurposing – like practices of repairing – are usually either interpreted as universal, timeless activities and thus deprived of their historical context, or reduced to a coping strategy in times...

Early micro computers of the so called 8 and 16 bit era (1975–1985) are important objects of hardware and software preservation for different reasons: today‘s hardware and software industries had been built on those machines (especially computer...

The history of repair is usually told as a story of decline: the changing relation- ship between the purchase and repair costs of consumer goods meant that private consumers were increasingly disinclined to have items repaired and tended to directly...