[game_preservation] General computing museums/projects
Henry Lowood
lowood at stanford.edu
Wed Jul 23 12:46:01 EDT 2008
Andrew,
Oh sure, already done. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't being subversive ...
Henry
At 04:10 PM 7/22/2008, Andrew Armstrong wrote:
>Anyone can edit the projects page if they want :-D
>
>The CHM is on the first page already I think, I'll be sure to add it
>to the second one of course. Specific projects are always worth a
>mention, there are several on there already, although it'd probably
>be an even better idea if I make a new page for each project so it
>can have it's full details noted.
>
>Andrew
>
>Henry Lowood wrote:
>>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
>>HRG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall
>>Stanford University Libraries
>>Stanford CA 94305-6004
>>650-723-4602; <mailto:lowood at stanford.edu>lowood at stanford.edu;
>>http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood
>>
>>
>>
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Henry Lowood, Ph.D.
Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections;
Film & Media Collections
HRG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford CA 94305-6004
650-723-4602; lowood at stanford.edu; http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood
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