Computer Conservation Society

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

• Computer Conservation Society
  • About the Computer Conservation Society (the CCS)
  • CCS Projects
  • Resurrection - The CCS Journal - contains links to online copies at the bottom of the page, along with brief Tables of Contents for all issues
  • Archives and your Personal Papers
• Computer Conservation Society - Our Computer Heritage Project
  • British companies delivering digital computers in the period 1950–1965
  • Catalogue of documents relevant to the UK’s early computing history