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The '''Computer Conservation Society''' is a premier British computer history group. It was started in September, 1989, as a Specialist Group of the [[British Computer Society]] (BCS); it was co-founded by the late [[Tony Sale]]. It is a co-operative venture between the BCS, the Science Museum of London, the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, and The National Museum of Computing.

Their goals (quoted from their web-site) include:

* To promote the conservation, restoration and reconstruction of historic computing systems and to identify existing computing systems which may need to be archived in the future;
* To develop awareness of the importance of historic computing systems;
* To develop expertise in the conservation, restoration and reconstruction of historic computing systems;
* To promote the study of historic computing systems, their use and the history of the computer industry;
* To publish information of relevance to these objectives for the information of Society members and the wider public.

They have been involved in numerous conservation/restoration projects, including:

* [[Harwell Dekatron]] - the oldest working electronic computer in the world
* [[EDSAC]] replica
* [[Manchester Baby]] replica

==External links==

* [https://www.computerconservationsociety.org/index.htm Computer Conservation Society]
** [https://www.computerconservationsociety.org/about.htm About the Computer Conservation Society (the CCS)]
** [https://www.computerconservationsociety.org/wg.htm CCS Projects]
** [https://www.computerconservationsociety.org/resurrection.htm Resurrection - The CCS Journal] - contains links to online copies at the bottom of the page, along with brief Tables of Contents for all issues
* [https://www.ourcomputerheritage.org/ Computer Conservation Society - Our Computer Heritage Project]
** [https://www.ourcomputerheritage.org/Company%20histories%20rev%20Jan%202022.pdf British companies delivering digital computers in the period 1950–1965]

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 ** [https://www.computerconservationsociety.org/doc_rescue.htm Archives and your Personal Papers]
 * [https://www.ourcomputerheritage.org/	Computer Conservation Society - Our Computer Heritage Project]
 ** [https://www.ourcomputerheritage.org/Company%20histories%20rev%20Jan%202022.pdf British companies delivering digital computers in the period 1950–1965]
 ** [https://www.ourcomputerheritage.org/OCH_catalogue_home_page_V5.pdf Catalogue of documents relevant to the UK’s early computing history]
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