[game_preservation] General computing museums/projects

[Henry Lowood]

Hi Andrew,

the Computer History Museum's PDP-1/Spacewar! projects should have a 
mention on this page.  Should I just add that on the page or would 
you prefer to coordinate?  Also, CHM should be mentioned on the second page.

Henry

At 03:20 PM 7/22/2008, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>Hey all,

>

>I am going to partially revamp the Projects/Links/whatevers page, 

>here: 

><http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG/Projects>http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG/Projects

>

>One way is to have a new page which only contains general computing 

>history museums/physical archives/etc. These are of course important 

>for the sole fact most of the things they are preserving play games. 

>Another is to add similar groups to our own - advocacy or practical 

>groups that aim to preserve computers or videogames (I intend to see 

>what the <http://computerconservationsociety.org/>CCS is up to, 

>which I only found out about today, for instance. Man, if only our 

>initials were not G-P-S, haha, which is a tad common to use as shorthand!).

>

>I need to know them all though! I've found a few UK ones (randomly 

>found some good links as well as the CSS link, I am obviously 

>terrible at finding things going on in my own country), and there 

>are already a few on the page already.

>

>If anyone knows any physical computer history archives, web links 

>are a good idea with a short description too, I'd love to know. I'll 

>search Google myself, but there are bound to be ones in non-English 

>speaking countries and other places.

>

>This will also help 

><http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG/Contributions>this 

>project since I will also contact the respective places looking for 

>all those who actively can accept and properly store hardware, 

>software and document material from game developers.

>

>Thanks all,

>

>Andrew

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Henry Lowood, Ph.D.
Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections;
  Film & Media Collections
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