Abstract
There were three main motivational drivers for founding the Computer Conservation Society as a joint co-operative venture of the Science Museum and the British Computer Society. These were the:
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restoration to working order of historic computing machines for public display;
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provision of an organisational context for the expertise of computer designers and practitioners with unique knowledge of historic machines;
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capture, documentation and preservation of computing knowhow.
Computer restoration, public display, and the notion of a ‘club’ were essential features of the original conception. Preservation and social utility were inseparably joined from the start. This paper reviews nearly 25 years of activity in pursuit of these aims.
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Johnson, R. (2013). Computer Conservation Society (CCS) – Its Story and Experience. In: Tatnall, A., Blyth, T., Johnson, R. (eds) Making the History of Computing Relevant. HC 2013. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 416. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41650-7_22
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