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software preservation group software preservation group bernard l peuto chairman 2003 2007 al kossow chairman 2007 paul mcjones editor paul mcjones org last updated 24 march 2026 projects computer systems crms apl new rice computer project new here ibm stretch xerox alto new here operating systems early batch and mainframe systems cal timesharing system new here programming languages algol apl reorganized bcpl c focal fortran and fortran ii gedanken interactive c environments lisp mesa new modula 2 new modula 3 new pal poplar prolog setl information applications emacs reorganized nls augment ibm system r program verification affirm esc simplify pivot artificial intelligence dendral informational projects books of computer history directory of software collections history of software preservation group the seed for the computer history museum s software preservation group was grady booch s 2002 email preserving classic software products this led to a 2003 workshop at the museum and to the founding of what was originally called the software collection committee the committee held monthly meetings for about four years and a 2006 workshop brought in outside collectors and archivists to share ideas the meetings covered a wide variety of topics and additional discussions took place on the scc_active mailing list the idea of pilot projects to assess the difficulty of tracking down historic software quickly arose a project to find the original fortran compiler began in 2004 and reached a successful conclusion by 2005 other early pilot projects were nls augment and the programming language apl the software collection committee was renamed the software preservation group in late 2006 and wound down its meetings during 2007 however a series of preservation projects continued including most recently modula 3 in march 2005 a plone content management system was set up to allow communication among committee members and to encourage outside participation in summer 2025 it was converted to the current form to record the early history of workshops and meetings and serve as a permanent repository for the various preservation projects the selection of projects was based on the interests of the people carrying them out see the acknowledgements below workshops 16 17 october 2003 preserving classic software 5 may 2006 the attic the parlor software collection preservation access meetings 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 email scc_active email archive 2004 2016 acknowledgements grady booch provided the call to action len shustek the computer history museum and bernard l peuto the software preservation group the museum staff provided excellent support and patient teaching about the internals of museums michael powell set up the original plone content management system many people participated in the meetings workshops and email list paul mcjones phil and kathe gust jonathan cheyer lee courtney christian langreiter randall neff paula newman dick blaine robert l patrick wendell r pepperdine lars brinkhoff and bruce ray created preservation projects david brock and hansen hsu suggested updating the web site ton luong and vinh quach maintained the old server for many years and built the new infrastructure using github and azure paul mcjones expanded the web site over the years and converted it to the present form