ICPSR started in 1962. Pat Galloway On 8/6/2018 1:47 PM, Henry E Lowood wrote:
Matt,
Another method – duh – would be to use online databases such as INSPEC. Found this, for example:
*Short Note On Information Retrieval Systems Applicable To Archive Data *
Éric De Grolier,
First Published September 1, 1965 Research Article
https://doi.org/10.1177/053901846500400313 <https://doi.org/10.1177%2F053901846500400313>
Noticed that most uses of “archive data,” “data storage” etc. that popped up seem to be related to social science data systems; the first big ones were developed in the late 1960s, early 1970s, I believe, though I am no expert.
Henry
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Matt,
As Paul already suggested, industry publications (including ads) would be a great place to start. The other place I would begin my search is in the various encyclopedias and published lists of terms. That’s what I used to track down the use of “virtual” a while back.
Interestingly, even relatively recent encyclopedias do not define “archive.” Just checked the 4^th ed. Of the Encyclopedia of Computer Science on my shelf – not in the glossary of terms. Only “archival storage” (twice) and “archive compression test” (once) are even listed in the general index.
Henry
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I've had a couple of additional backchannel responses to this (thank you) but nothing terribly decisive. Is the question too diffuse, I wonder? Too obscure? How would one go about running something like this down? What would be some good industry publications to check to try to track the emergence of "archive" as a computer systems term?
OED doesn't offer a usage in relation to computing or data before 1978, but this seems late to me; certainly Wang was using the language of an "archive" disk for much of the 1970s.
Best, Matt
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 2:23 PM, Matthew Kirschenbaum <mkirschenbaum@gmail.com <mailto:mkirschenbaum@gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear all,
I'm trying to find early exemplars of the use of the word "archive" in computer systems contexts, whether as a noun to denote an element of computer architecture (i.e., the archive disk or archive tape) or as a verb, i.e. "I've archived those files."
Examples might include the TAR ("Tape ARchive") format, Wang's nomenclature of an "archive disk" in its systems, and Gmail's early mantra, "Archive, Don't Delete."
I'd love to run down some early instances of this sort of thing, which I assume goes back to the mainframe era.
Thank you--
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Matthew Kirschenbaum Professor of English and Digital Studies Director, Graduate Certificate in Digital Studies University of Maryland mkirschenbaum.net <http://mkirschenbaum.net>
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Matthew Kirschenbaum Professor of English and Digital Studies Director, Graduate Certificate in Digital Studies University of Maryland mkirschenbaum.net <http://mkirschenbaum.net>
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