Think Piece

  • Authors:
  • Martin Campbell-Kelly

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Warwick

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Museum curators, academics, and hobbyists have been considering the problem of conserving software since the mid-1980s, perhaps earlier. The technical problem of software preservation, however, is only one of the problems that needs to be considered; we also need to consider why one should want to save software and what needs to be saved.