[SPG_Active_Members] LispKit GNU Pascal Port

[Paul McJones]

It's been pointed out to me that I was not accurate when I said "... but 
the Computer History Museum still has not publicized its plans for 
digital archives": about two years ago, Paula Jabloner posted an article 
"Crafting a Digital Repository" to the CHM blog 
(http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/crafting-a-digital-repository/). 
It gives detailed summary of the first 11 months of a project to build a 
prototype digital repository, and includes links to several project 
documents that in turn have many useful links about technology, policy, 
and best practices for digital archives.

So I'm guessing that CHM has made good progress since then, and I look 
forward to hearing more. If I do, I'll post an article on my blog Dusty 
Decks (http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/).


Paul

On 5/10/2014 8:01 PM, Paul McJones wrote:
> Dear Aaron,
>
> I'm the main contributor to the softwarepreservation.org 
> <http://softwarepreservation.org> web site (which is owned by the 
> Computer History Museum). I would be happy to host your LispKit work 
> there.  It would make sense to put it either in the "History of Lisp" 
> section (http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/) or 
> perhaps as a new entry under Functional Programming 
> (http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FP) given LispKit's 
> direct relationship to Peter Landin's ISWIM/SECD work in the 1960s.
>
> It's interesting that the Software Preservation Group (originally 
> called the Software Collection Committee) was started a little over 10 
> years ago (late 2003), and its website was launched about 9 years ago 
> (April 2005), but the Computer History Museum still has not publicized 
> its plans for digital archives. There has been encouraging progress, 
> however, with a series of @CHM posts featuring history software, with 
> MS-DOS and Word for Windows as the most recent installments.
>
> If you'd like to follow up, you can email me directly 
> (paul at mcjones.org <mailto:paul at mcjones.org>) --- no need to Cc: the 
> mailing list.
>
>
> Paul
>
>
> On May 10, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Aaron Gray <aaronngray at gmail.com 
> <mailto:aaronngray at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Some years ago with the help of the comp.lang.pascal UseNet group I 
>> ported the old LispKit source to GNU Pascal. I checked with the 
>> authors and put it online and made it available freely as it was in 
>> the public domain.
>>
>> http://www.cybercomms.org/LispKit
>>
>> I have it on my home server, but would like it to move to a more 
>> permanent home.
>>
>> So www.computerhistory.org <http://www.computerhistory.org/> would be 
>> an ideal place.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Aaron Gray
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