19 Oct
2002
19 Oct
'02
10:50 a.m.
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Stan Barr wrote:
Also I think we need to preserve information on the
way computers
were *operated*. There are plenty of people alive now who know how
to toggle in a boot loader, for example, but will this sort of
info be readily available to historians in 50 years time?
Probably, thanks in part to this mailing list (providing it is archived on
a durable medium ;)
One of my other interests is Morse code telegraphy,
for which a lot
of original early operational data still exists but I've not seen
much similar material for early computers.
That's why I'm building and maintaining such a large archive of manuals,
and why folks like Al Kossow are furiously scanning tens of thousands of
manual pages.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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