Analysis · 1980
The NES Makes Sense as Console, Cartridge, and Market
The NES was more than a machine: its architecture, cartridges, and game library form a system whose history also depends on how it is studied and documented.
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Analysis · 1980
Reading a Toy Beyond Its Rarity
An object, its documentation and signs of use raise questions about play. The available sources support this approach, but do not identify instructions or uses for a particular toy.
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Analysis · 1980
Leisure as a document: what sources reveal about everyday life
Analyzes how the history of everyday life uses leisure as a lens to understand the routines and social practices of the 1970s and 1980s in Spain, highlighting the limits of available documentation.
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Analysis · 1980
The Floppy Disk as Document: Beyond the Physical Medium
Analyzes how the floppy disk transcended its technical function to become an object of documentation and archiving, exploring cataloging and preservation practices in the context of home computing.
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Analysis · 1980
What the schedule didn't record: the archive as incomplete memory
Analyzes how television archives function as cultural documents that reveal both what was broadcast and what was lost, highlighting the role of audiovisual preservation in building collective memory.
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History · 1980
June 18, 1982 in Figueres
Analysis of the opening of the Toy Museum in Figueres as a milestone in the institutionalization of the Spanish toy as cultural heritage.
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Analysis · 1980
From newsstand to museum: what changes when a comics magazine becomes an archive?
A look at Spanish comics magazines of the 1970s and 1980s through their contexts of circulation and remembrance. The available evidence supports the question, not a reconstruction of specific editorial changes; that would require verifiable issues and publishing data.
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Analysis · 1980
A Preserved Broadcast Cannot Reconstruct Television on Its Own
Recordings make programmes available to watch again, but studying television also means consulting schedules, catalogues and research on its consumption. The available evidence points to an archive made up of different sources, each with its own scope and limitations.
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Analysis · 1980
From Newsstand to Gallery, the Way We Read Comics Changes Too
A comic’s editorial format and the places through which it circulates are part of the reading experience. The available evidence supports that connection, but not a reconstruction of specific issue-by-issue changes.
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Analysis · 1980
The Apple IIc and the Disk Drive Built into the Computer
The Apple IIc brought a disk drive and peripheral ports together in a compact case. Its design offers a way to examine how a computer’s physical layout shaped what could be described and preserved, although the available sources do not, by themselves, reconstruct users’ home routines.
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Analysis · 1980
What Film Documents Can—and Cannot—Tell Us
Archives, catalogues and historical studies help place cinema in context, but they neither replace films nor prove on their own how audiences received them.
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Analysis · 1980
A storage medium cannot tell us, by itself, how a computer was used
A drive, a storage medium and the record that describes them are different kinds of evidence. Archival standards help distinguish them, but cannot reconstruct a domestic routine that the sources do not show.
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