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Anna Mancini
Personal blog · annamancini.substack.comhistoryculture
Anna Mancini writes Anna’s Archival Musings, a personal blog at annamancini.substack.com about history and culture. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “How the Apple archive ended up at Stanford”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog on the closing of corporate libraries and archives, citing Microsoft's campus library closure and the outsourcing of HP's archive. The comments cite the posts as background and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
For archivists by an archivist.
Most-linked posts?
- How the Apple archive ended up at Stanford3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-11-10
What Hacker News says?
This seems like another sad indicator that Microsoft has deteriorated from the company it used to be. Though Steve Jobs infamously closed the Apple Library (which had existed since 1981) after he returned in 1997: > “Who uses all of this?” asked Steve. > Monica answered, “The engineers use this to do research.” > Steve’s response: “They should know all that already.” ... > Word spread throughout Apple that the libra…
Comment linking /p/how-the-apple-archive-ended-up-at
on “Microsoft Campus Library Closes”Submitted How the Apple archive ended up at Stanford as a story · 251 points
HN discussionBy the time that happened, those papers were with Agilent. This is what happened to the archive of HP. Summary is they outsourced it and didn't hire a new archivist when Anna retired. Recent news is that company in Georgia just acquired the contents of the Australian HP Museum http://hpmuseum.net/ Mirrors of the contents of that site were made available and are now archived at various places around the world. Before…
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on “Corporate Archives in Silicon Valley”