Artifact Details

Title

Computer conservation in the United Kingdom : the EDSAC replica project

Catalog Number

102743005

Type

Moving image

Description

The Computer History Museum is very pleased to welcome Kevin Murrell to the CHM stage for a lecture about computer conservation in the United Kingdom. In this lecture Mr. Murrell provides an overview of the British Computer Society's Computer Conservation Society (CSS) and its restoration projects, including the EDSAC replica project, and the restoration of the Harwell Dekatron computer. Len Shustek, the Chairman of CHM's Board of Trustees, joins Kevin on stage for the Q&A portion of this event.

Watch this event on CHM's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory?feature=watch#p/search/0/IpjEnDgWPjg

Date

2011-05-11

Participants

Murrell, Kevin, Speaker
Shustek, Len, Speaker

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, California

Duration

00:56:56

Format

Digital video

Category

Lecture

Subject

EDSAC (Computer); computer conservation; Colossus (Computer); British Computer Society; Computer Conservation Society (CCS)

Collection Title

CHM Lecture Collection

Lot Number

X6087.2011