The Division's Computer History Collection website is an archival resource not a service provider. THE ON SITE EXHIBIT HAS BEEN TAKEN DOWN. "The Division of Information Technology and Communications dedicates its collections and scholarship to a broader understanding of information technologies and their role in American history. Staff of the division manage collections, conduct research, and produce publications and other educational products in the history of science, technology, and society related to all aspects of information technology and communications" (excerpted from NMAH's Division of Information Technology and Communications website).
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MAME's website "documents the hardware and software of arcade games" from the 1970s on (excerpted from the Charles Babbage Institute's website). MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with images of the original arcade game's ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce that game as faithfully as possible on a more modern general-purpose computer. MAME can currently emulate several thousand different classic arcade video games from the late 1970s through the modern era.... MAME is strictly a non-profit project. Its main purpose is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines. This is done both for educational purposes and for preservation purposes, in order to prevent many historical games from disappearing forever once the hardware they run on stops working... All of MAME's source code is either our own or freely available" (excerpted from MAME's website).
