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- Brief
History of
Computing
- timeline of computer development,
from the first mechanical calculators
to modern computers and the
Internet.
- Calculating
Machines
- history, classification and pictures
of mechanical calculating
machines.
- Chronology
of Personal
Computers
- bring various published sources
together to present a timeline about
personal computers.
- Classic
8-Bit
Computers
- includes documentation and links for
classic computers of the eighties,
including Acorn, Commodore, Atari, and
Sinclair.
- Computer
Chronicles: From Stone to
Silicon
- timeline of computer history starting
at the abacus and finishing with the
computers of today.
- Computer
History Association of California
(CHAC)
- studying, preserving, protecting and
popularizing the history of electronic
computing, while gathering the forces
to build a museum.
- Computer
History Simulation
Project
- Internet-based collective of people
interested in restoring historically
significant computer hardware and
software systems by
simulation.
- Computer
Lore Gopher
- Computers:
Not Just a PC on a
Desk
- offers a brief history of
computers.
- Computissimo
- photo collection of micro-computers,
video games, microprocessors,
mechanical and electronic calculators,
and more.
- Cybercinema
- devoted to the history of computers
and artificial intelligence in
film.
- DigiBarn
Computer
Museum
- museum of personal computing history
and the history of the graphical user
interface, in a barn in the mountains
above Silicon Valley.
- Digidome
- collection of antique computers,
software, books, and
peripherals.
- Digital
Moments
- photojournalist and commercial
photographer whose work has been
featured in the A Day in the Life of
America series.
- First
Virtual Mousepad
Museum
- large collection of scanned images of
mousepads.
- Historic
Computer Images
[curie.fr]
- Many pictures of DEC PDP's and VAXen.
Also featuring some RX, RL and RM
disks. The most famous disks with the
SMD interface as the Eagle or XMD are
HERE.
- Historical
Computer
Society
- and Virtual Microcomputer History
Museum.
- History
of Computers During My Lifetime,
The
- from the 1970s to the
1990s.
- Memoir
of a Homebrew Computer Club
Member
- an original Homebrew Computer Club
member shares some interesting
memorabilia and memories from the early
days of personal computing.
- Mind
Machine
Museum
- illustrated collection of historic
computers, calculators, boards, ICs,
and computer-related games.
- MouseSite
- a resource for exploring the history
of human computer interaction beginning
with the pioneering work of Douglas
Engelbart and his colleagues at
Stanford Research Institute in the
1960s.
- Museum
of Dead, Gone and Obsolete
Computers
- a virtual museum featuring photos,
detailed specs and information, a
personal collection, and
links.
- Nascom
Nostalgia
- history, Nascom-2 emulator and
applications.
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- Northstar
Horizon
- features information and downloads
for the Northstar Horizon and other
S-100 based CP/M machines from the late
1970s.
- Obsolete
Laboratory
- discussion forums on classic
computers, emulation, classic gaming,
and networking.
- Obsolyte
- a personal retrospective of "cool"
computing dedicated to vintage computer
hardware, classic systems, and
workstations or
"mainframes."
- Past
Notable Women of Computing &
Mathematics
- PCBiography.net
- offers an expansive collection of
items that make up computing history
including a gallery of hardware,
Internet history, software history, and
more.
- PDP-11
History
- the history of the famous
minicomputer-family from
DEC.
- PDP-8
Computer
- information and links on this early
microcomputer. Offers a program to
operate a PDP-8 system
online.
- Redundant
Technology Initiative
(RTI)
- finding new ways to be creative with
old technology, and exhibiting the
results.
- Retrocorp
- relives the 80's computer age. With
BBC, Commadore, Sinclair, and others
sections.
- Revolutionaries,
The
- interview series explores the
exciting, often surprising stories of
Silicon Valley's innovation and
inspiration.
- Rice
Computer,
1959-1971
- A brief narrative history of the Rice
Computer, one of the last of the great
homebrew dinosaurs. Interesting for its
tagged architecture and variety of
technologies used.
- Silicon
Valley History: View from Internet
Valley
- Smithsonian
Computer History
Collection
- transcripts of interviews with
Smithsonian ComputerworldAward Winners,
including Bill Gates, Seymour Cray, and
others.
- Story
of Mel,
The
- The story of a *real* Real
Programmer
- System
R
- introduced the SQL language and also
demonstrated that a relational system
could provide good transaction
processing performance.
- Terak
Museum
- an early personal computer made by
the Terak Corporation of Scottsdale,
Arizona. It was sold from about 1979
until 1985.
- Totalisator
History
- the first totalisator - a device for
calculating bets on a race - was
invented in Australia in
1930.
- Triumph
of the
Nerds
- a companion Web site for the PBS
television special about the history of
the computer industry.
- Unisys
History
Newsletter
- information about UNIVAC, Sperry,
Burroughs etc.
- Univac
Memories
- University
of Minnesota, Twin Cities - Charles
Babbage
Institute
- research center dedicated to the
preservation of the history of
information processing.
- Virtual
Mousepad Museum
- Virtual
Museum of
Computing
- an eclectic collection of hyperlinks
connected with the history of computing
and online computer-based exhibits
available both locally and around the
world.
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