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Computer Heritage: Problems and Perspectives at the Musée des arts et métiers Cyrille Foasso

Computer Heritage: Problems and Perspectives at the Musée des arts et métiers Cyrille Foasso. Modern Scientific Instrument Collection cyrille.foasso@cnam.fr. Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) set up in 1794 by Henri Grégoire a collection of machines for educational purposes.

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Computer Heritage: Problems and Perspectives at the Musée des arts et métiers Cyrille Foasso

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  1. Computer Heritage: Problems and Perspectives at the Musée des arts et métiersCyrille Foasso Modern Scientific Instrument Collection cyrille.foasso@cnam.fr

  2. Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) • set up in 1794 by Henri Grégoire • a collection of machines for educational purposes

  3. Inv. 823 Machine arithmétique de Pascal • Musée des arts et métiers • (CNAM) • 80 000 objects • 15 000 technical drawings Inv.17 Métier à tisser de Vaucanson Inv. 1631 Marmite de Papin

  4. Inv. 7547 Gazomètre de Lavoisier Inv. 7509 Balance hydrostatique de Nollet Inv. 7549 Ballon de Lavoisier

  5. Inv. 13571-90-2_aa Moulin à organser les soies

  6. Inv. 12605 Analyseur de sons d’Helmholtz Inv. 7052 Diapasons de Koenig

  7. An example of a new kind of technological object : object with software Inv. coming soon Sonomètre intégrateur numérique à mémoire • « Sœur Anne » Digital integrating Soundmeter with memory (1983) • LECACQ.EXE • LECCALC.EXE

  8. 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)

  9. Museums : a material culture approach • Machines • Software and digital data : the container • what about the content ?

  10. Lots of media storage : boxes and what ?

  11. Examples of Computers in the collection • Mainframes • Personal Computers Some could be restored and work to save the bitstream ? Need « Code of practice » Inv. 22480 IBM 7030 « Stretch », console

  12. Inv. 22358 SEA CAB 500 Inv. 36580 SEA CAB 4000 Inv. 22566 Bull Gamma 60

  13. More than 500 desktop computers, from 1975 to 1995 in the collection

  14. 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

  15. The specialists we will work with for software analysis methodology, the Cedric Laboratory • Centre d’Etudes et De Recherche en Informatique du Cnam • Information systems and Data bases • Data Mining… • Network, systems, and multimedia

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