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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