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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/crafting-a-digital-repository/">http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/crafting-a-digital-repository/</a>).
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.<br>
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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 (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/">http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/</a>).<br>
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Paul<br>
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On 5/10/2014 8:01 PM, Paul McJones wrote:<br>
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<div>I’m the main contributor to the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://softwarepreservation.org">softwarepreservation.org</a>
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 (<a
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href="http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/">http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/</a>)
or perhaps as a new entry under Functional Programming (<a
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href="http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FP">http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FP</a>)
given LispKit's direct relationship to Peter Landin’s ISWIM/SECD
work in the 1960s.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>If you’d like to follow up, you can email me directly (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:paul@mcjones.org">paul@mcjones.org</a>)
— no need to Cc: the mailing list.</div>
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<div>On May 10, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Aaron Gray <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:aaronngray@gmail.com">aaronngray@gmail.com</a>>
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<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cybercomms.org/LispKit">http://www.cybercomms.org/LispKit</a></div>
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<div>I have it on my home server, but would like it to
move to a more permanent home.</div>
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<div>So <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.computerhistory.org/">www.computerhistory.org</a>
would be an ideal place.</div>
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<div>Aaron Gray</div>
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