Software is fleeting: even the Computer History Museum has no Cray software archives
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-11-03
Grady Booch reflects on a homebrew Cray-1A rebuild: finding software for it turned out to be the hardest part. The Computer History Museum had none, SGI reportedly destroyed Cray's software archives in the late 90s, and FOIA requests came up empty — a reminder that preserving old software is far harder than preserving old hardware.
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