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Computer Heritage: Problems and Perspectives
at the Musée des arts et métiers
Cyrille Foasso
Modern Scientific Instrument Collection
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Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM)set up in 1794 by Henri Grégoirea collection of machines for educational purposes
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Inv. 823 Machine arithmétique de Pascal
Inv.17 Métier à tisser de Vaucanson Inv. 1631
Marmite de Papin
Musée des arts et métiers (CNAM)80 000 objects15 000 technical drawings
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Inv. 7509Balance hydrostatique de Nollet
Inv. 7547 Gazomètre de Lavoisier
Inv. 7549 Ballon de Lavoisier
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Inv. 13571-90-2_aaMoulin à organser les soies
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Inv. 12605Analyseur de sons d’Helmholtz
Inv. 7052 Diapasons de Koenig
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An example of a new kind of technological object : object with software
Inv. coming soonSonomètre intégrateur numérique à mémoire
« Sœur Anne » Digital integrating Soundmeter with memory (1983)
LECACQ.EXE
LECCALC.EXE
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• Working Group/Network on Computer Heritage- Musée des arts et métiers/CNAM (Paris)
- Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie (Paris)
- Fédération des Equipes Bull (FEB) (Paris, Angers)
- ACONIT (Association pour un conservatoire de l’informatique et de la télématique) (Grenoble)
- AMISA (Association pour le musée international du calcul, de l’informatique et de l’automatique)/INRIA (Sofia Antipolis)
- Département Multimedia de la BNF (Paris)
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• Museums : a material culture approach- Machines
- Software and digital data : the container
what about the content ?
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Lots of media storage : boxes and what ?
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Inv. 22480IBM 7030 « Stretch », console
Examples of Computers in the collection
Mainframes
Personal Computers
Some could be restored and work to save the bitstream ? Need « Code of practice »
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Inv. 22358SEA CAB 500
Inv. 22566Bull Gamma 60
Inv. 36580SEA CAB 4000
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More than 500 desktop
computers, from 1975 to
1995 in the collection
APRICOT PC IBM 5100
HP-9825
APPLE II
Commodore PET 2001
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Software :
- More than digital data
- Not a single phenomenon
• what is to be preserved ?
- THE SOURCE CODE… and more
of what ?
- Save All, future generations will sort and interpret, or
- Save just what you are able to document ?
• Needs
- Inventory, cataloging methods, how to index software parts and layers
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• The specialists we will work with for software analysis
methodology, the Cedric Laboratory
Centre d’Etudes et De Recherche en Informatique du CnamInformation systems and Data basesData Mining…Network, systems, and multimedia