• DocumentCode
    899244
  • Title

    What Should We Collect to Preserve the History of Software?

  • Author

    Shustek, Len

  • Author_Institution
    Computer History Museum
  • Volume
    28
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2006
  • Firstpage
    112
  • Lastpage
    111
  • Abstract
    Software is more than cards, tapes and disks; it is the meaning of the bits that they contain. To properly preserve the history of computing, we must preserve the software code, especially the source code, for analysis by future historians.
  • Keywords
    Assembly; Difference engines; Distributed computing; Documentation; Guidelines; History; Programming profession; Raw materials; Software packages; Writing; Preserving software; history of programming; software history; source code repository;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2006.78
  • Filename
    4042496
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=899244