One of the nation's largest collections of vintage software and computer equipment has been forced to expand so the National Library of Australia (NLA) in Canberra can access valuable donations that are often in outdated digital formats.
Staff at the library started collecting obsolete computers, disk readers and outdated software when they realised how hard it was to open some computer files and digital images from the past 20 years.
NLA's manager of digital preservation David Pearson said the storage vaults included everything from a working Commodore 64 computer, to one of the earliest word processing programs, Wordstar.
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