Computer Conservation Society
From Computer History Wiki
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
