Section 06
Archives
Three entries on where any of this survives: the library that serves the runtimes as well as the files, the institutions that keep the hardware and the paperwork, and the source code that survived by accident rather than by plan.
Labelled, powered and indexed — and still unreadable without a program that understands the format.
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3 entries
Where any of it survives.
- 06.01The Internet Archive
A library that took on software preservation as part of its remit, and now serves the runtimes as well as the files.
- 06.02Museums and libraries
Institutional collections hold hardware, media and paperwork, and the paperwork is usually the part that makes the rest usable.
- 06.03Where the source went
Source code survives by accident far more often than by design, on a disc in somebody's loft rather than in a repository.