Category Archives: Repositories

Herbert Stoyan Collection finding aid and catalog online at CHM

Posted on 11/16/2011 by Paul McJones

In July 2010 I wrote about the collection of Lisp and artificial intelligence documents that Herbert Stoyan donated to the Computer History Museum. Today I’m glad to be able to announce that the finding aid is online at CHM and … Continue reading →

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Herbert Stoyan’s Lisp collection at CHM

Posted on 7/29/2010 by Paul McJones

Last winter Herbert Stoyan very generously donated to the Computer History Museum the extensive collection of Lisp and AI materials he assembled in the course of his extensive study of Lisp and its history: manuals, technical reports, papers, books, listings, … Continue reading →

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C++ Historical Sources Archive

Posted on 6/11/2007 by Paul McJones

Observant audience members at Bjarne Stroustrup’s HOPL-III C++ talk this past weekend may have noticed on the last slide a mention of the C++ Historical Sources Archive at the Computer History Museum. This is a project Bjarne and I have … Continue reading →

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A report and a request from Al Kossow

Posted on 9/29/2006 by Paul McJones

Many people know of Al Kossow through his work on bitsavers.org, which I mentioned in a previous post. I’m very pleased to mention here Al’s recent appointment as the Robert N. Miner Software Curator at the Computer History Museum. Al … Continue reading →

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Historic software at bitsavers.org

Posted on 11/28/2004 by Paul McJones

Although the majority of items at Al Kossow’s bitsavers.org are scanned copies of manuals, he also has software in source and/or executable form for a variety of machines (scroll down to “The Software Archive”) . Some of the oldest include … Continue reading →

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