<div>Philippe,</div>
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<div>Thank you for contacting the IGDA Game Preservation SIG! Looks like an interesting database. To what extent does your collection cover mainframe computer software and games? One of my current interests is in the development of mainframe computer games from 1962 to 1972, and I think it would be useful to examine the nature of entertainment software on computers in other countries during this time.</div>
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<div>Devin Monnens<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:56 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samurai@mo5.com">samurai@mo5.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi everyone !<br><br>Glad to be here :)<br>I'm Philippe Dubois, founder of the non-profit french association <a href="http://mo5.com/" target="_blank">MO5.COM</a>. I was<br>
contacted by Andrew Amstrong so, here i am to speak about our organisation,<br><a href="http://mo5.com/" target="_blank">MO5.COM</a> :<br><br>What we are doing : we're the main French resource for collectors,<br>specialists and historians about computer and videogame history.<br>
Our knowledge and ability to preserve and display this cultural<br>heritage to the public are very well known in Europe.<br><br>We're focusing on:<br>- Acquiring and preserving the largest possible number of items about<br>
computing, videogaming and any more recent digital media. Our<br>collections house an estimated 30.000 items, including computers,<br>videogame systems, software, books, magazines, peripherals, and so on.<br>- Taking part in a large number of exhibits and museum projects, where<br>
we can guide the public to experience the source of the computing<br>and gaming industry as we know it today.<br><br>The main goal of our non-profit-making organization is to found what<br>could be the first French or European national museum of the<br>
digital era.<br><br>To help us achieve this goal, we communicate on our websites and in<br>the community as a whole to collect the largest number of related<br>items, which includes systems (computers, videogames, digital<br>
devices), software, source codes, development kits, peripherals,<br>books, magazines, and so on. Everything that is old enough<br>(before 2002) or rare (such as press kits) is interesting to us.<br>We're currently completing the purchase of a spacious place near<br>
Paris where we will try to store all of our collections so that we<br>can work on them and perform what we do best, i.e. preserving them.<br><br>I'm in contact with Vincent Joguin, chief leader of the KEEP project, since a<br>
couple of years, so please Andreas, keep us informed with the meeting in Paris<br>you were talking about please :)<br><br>Sincerely yours,<br>Philippe Dubois, Association <a href="http://mo5.com/" target="_blank">MO5.COM</a>, President<br>
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