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PastwareLab
Research concept for interactive computing history in the browser
PastwareLab should make computing and software history from 1936 to 1983 experienceable as an interactive learning journey. The project is a research/concept approach and not live yet.
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About PastwareLab
PastwareLab is planned as an international browser-based computing and software history lab/museum concept. Content should primarily be created in English, with German as a secondary language.
The initial scope is 1936 to 1983 with about 15 planned stations. This page is a research/concept description, not a live announcement and not a distribution of old original programs.
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Planned Learning and Simulation Workflow
Users should be able to choose a historical station, read an explanation and try a browser-based simulation. The simulations should show learning concepts without distributing copyright-problematic original copies.
Depending on the content, a legal-safety classification can help distinguish safe, review-needed and unusable historical material.
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Use Cases
PastwareLab is planned for learners, teachers, technology enthusiasts, developers and people who want to understand historical software ideas interactively.
The focus is explanation, context and simulation. The project should not be a download platform for old commercial software.
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Planned Technical Implementation
The core start is planned static-first: station catalog, static content, browser simulations and central legal/contact/launch configuration. Accounts, tracking or a backend are not planned for the core start.
A public launch guard should prevent `PUBLIC_LAUNCH=true` from being set before operator, contact and review data are correctly maintained.
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Legal Caution, Privacy and Limits
PastwareLab must not claim broad rights or copyright clearance. Where historical original software is legally risky, clean-room simulations or explanatory recreations are the more cautious approach.
No accounts and no tracking are planned for the core concept. This keeps privacy simpler, but hosting logs, contact channels and later features would still need to be described factually.
Planned PastwareLab Architecture
A static-first learning system should separate stations, legal classification, simulation and explanation.
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Features
Interactive history stations planned
Historical stations as learning modules.
Browser-based simulations
Explore concepts interactively in the browser.
Clean-room recreations
Avoid distributing problematic original copies.
Timeline 1936-1983
Initial historical scope.
Legal safety classification
Plan Green/Yellow/Red-like classification.
Static-first architecture
Plan core start without accounts, tracking or backend.