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I wonder how many software from the 70s and 80s in not so famous languages are lost forever. And if is there an effort to preserve such works?


The Computer History Museum has established a Software Preservation Group: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/

They also have artifacts like MacPaint source code in their collection: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102658076


Here is one effort. There may be more of course:

http://www.textfiles.com/bitsavers/


What for?


History, for starters.




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