[game_preservation] General computing museums/projects

[Melanie Swalwell]

Hi Andrew,

Not a computing museum per se, but an offshoot of the work my
colleagues and I at VUW have been doing has been a special collection
set up in the Library: so it could be included in the wiki pages.  The
contact person is Nicola Frean.  Not sure there's a webpage yet, but
here's a blurb with links.

Description: This collection was begun by NZTronix, a
multidisciplinary team of VUW researchers working to gather
information on, and preserve examples of, locally written software.
The Early New Zealand Software Database is one part of this
http://www.nztronix.org.nz/main.php.  The team also maintain a weblog
at http://www.nztronix.org.nz/ and a contact address at
nzsoftwarearchive at gmail.com. The archives collection is now maintained
and continued by the Victoria University of Wellington Library, in
association with an interdisciplinary group of academic staff.

The collected archives include: physical material (e.g. boxes for
games etc.), historic programming and software, booklets,
correspondence, and ephemera such as advertising. The collection is
particularly strong on Sega software. No computer hardware is held.
The archives from the NZTronix project include information on:
Emulators, Site Statistics; Software; Acid Software Games etc, and NZ
User Groups in the 1980s.

Melanie

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