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--></style></head><body lang=CS link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Dear David, list members,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I’ve researched the history of hobby computing and computer games in Soviet era Czechoslovakia and interviewed 42 people, most of whom were active amateur programmers in the 1980s, a couple of them also computing professionals from 1950s onwards. The interviews were conducted in Czech or Slovak and are currently not publicly available – but the results of the research will be published in my book Gaming the Iron Curtain, upcoming with MIT Press this Fall.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jaroslav</span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jaroslav Švelch, Ph.D.<br>New media and digital games scholar (http://svelch.com)<br>Postdoctoral fellow, University of Bergen<br>Games and Transgressive Aesthetics project: http://gta.b.uib.no/<br>Assistant professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague (on leave)<br><br>Phone: +420 773 988 425</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:t.astarte@newcastle.ac.uk">Troy Astarte (PGR)</a><br><b>Sent: </b>středa 7. února 2018 11:28<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:dbrock@computerhistory.org">David C. Brock</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org">members</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Active institutional or individual oral historyefforts in history of computing *outside* US</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear David, <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am into the final year of my PhD research on the history of programming language semantics. As a part of this I have conducted, recorded, and transcribed interviews with a number of people (6) who worked in this field or a related field. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Best,</span> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Troy Astarte<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 6 Feb 2018, at 15:58, David C. Brock <<a href="mailto:dbrock@computerhistory.org">dbrock@computerhistory.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I would like to get a better sense of which institutions or individuals are actively creating oral histories in the history of computing, broadly conceived, *outside* of the US.<br><br>I’m posting the question here because I’d bet others would like to know as well.<br><br>Thanks in advance for your help.<br><br>Best wishes,<br><br>David<br><br>..............<br>David C. Brock<br>Director<br>Center for Software History [<a href="http://www.computerhistory.org/softwarehistory/">http://www.computerhistory.org/softwarehistory/</a>]<br>Computer History Museum [<a href="http://www.computerhistory.org/">http://www.computerhistory.org/</a>]<br><br><a href="mailto:dbrock@computerhistory.org">Email: dbrock@computerhistory.org</a><br>Twitter: @dcbrock<br>Skype: dcbrock<br><br>1401 N. 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