The Computer Conservation Society (CCS) is a British organization, founded in 1989. It is under the joint umbrella of the British Computer Society, the London Science Museum and the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. Many of the society's meetings are held at the Science Museum. The CCS is interested in the history of computing in general and the conservation and preservation of early British historical computers in particular.
The CCS publishes a quarterly bulletin, Resurrection.
Dr Doron Swade, formerly the curator of the computing collection at the Science Museum, was a founding committee member.
The current chair of the society is Mrs Rachel Burnett. The immediate past chair is Dr David Hartley.
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