Kenneth Flowers, son ofthe pioneering engineer, said he was glad that his father's contribution to thehistoryofcomputers was gradually getting more recognition.
Despite the stepped-up activity, some art dealers still bemoan what they call the indifference ofthe tech world and write off tech billionaires as glorified engineering nerds who skipped art history to play with their computers.
The battle between local storage and shared storage has a long history, back to the very beginnings ofthe personal computer industry, when small computers with local storage began to replace dumb terminals connected to centralized mainframe computers.