Archives and research center for the history of computing, located at University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis ...
Run a PDP-8 online. Information on the Digital PDP-8 computer and peripherals. Blinking lights, core, paper tape, what more could you want
History of computing ...
Bios, an interactive game, and a Q&A forum trace the birth of the personal computer at this PBS companion site.
The mission of the Vintage Computer Festival is to promote the preservation of 'obsolete' computers by offering people a chance to experience the technologies, people and stories that embody the remarkable tale of the computer revolution.
Mechanical Calculating Machines - This site by by Erez Kaplan, is all about mechanical calculating machines. It includes chronological description, classification and pictorial view (dozens of photographs), books, organizations and much more. ...
Chronology of Personal Computers: timeline of events tracing the history of personal computers, from the late 1960s to date ...
www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist
Web museum of vintage computers, calculators, video games, and artifacts ...
userwww.sfsu.edu/~hl/mmm.html
Past Notable Women of Computing & Mathematics Honoring the close connection between mathematics and computing, TAP provides information on pioneers in both areas. Past Notable Women of Mathematics Past Notable Women of Computing TAP's Photo Gallery of Women and Computers Other Resources Relevant to the History of Computing Pioneering Women in Computer Science, by Denise Gurer, Communications of ...
www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/past-women.html
Computissimo - Musee de l'Histoire de l'Informatique - vous ouvre ses portes ! Venez visiter les collections de micro-ordinateurs, IBM, calculatrices electroniques et mecaniques, consoles de jeux, microprocesseurs et toutes sortes de supports de donnees.
WELCOME to the 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. As a graduate student in electrical engineering at UC Berkeley after World War II Doug Engelbart began to imagine ways in which all sorts of information could be displayed on the ...
sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite
Historic Computer Images This photo collection is one portion of my collection of History of Computing Information documents (seminal reports, 200+ pages online). Here is a collection of high resolution 400 dpi scans made by Mike Muuss for his Computer History archive. All of them were scanned on a Canon CLC-500 color scanner/printer. See below for full information on Use and Publication Rights.
ftp.arl.mil/ftp/historic-computers
The Computer History Simulation Project The Computer History Simulation Project is a loose Internet-based collective of people interested in restoring historically significant computer hardware and software systems by simulation. The goal of the project is to create highly portable system simulators and to publish them as freeware on the Internet, with freely available copies of significant or ...
Tools For Thought by Howard Rheingold April, 2000: a revised edition of Tools for Thought is available from MIT Press, including a revised chapter with 1999 interviews of Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, Alan Kay, Brenda Laurel, and Avron Barr. Tools for Thought is an exercise in retrospective futurism; that is, I wrote it in the early 1980s, attempting to look at what the mid 1990s would be like. My ...
www.rheingold.com/texts/tft
www.chez.com/samurai/RING/ring.htm
UNIVAC Memories ...
www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/index.html
Silicon Valley History and Future provides Web surfing people with timeline, milestones, main events and founders of the San Francisco Bay Area High Tech area.
www.internetvalley.com/introduction.html
Silicon Valley History provides Web surfing people with timeline, milestones, main events and founders of the San Francisco Bay Area High Tech area.
www.internetvalley.com/svhistory.html
System R is a database system built as a research project at IBM San Jose Research (now IBM Almaden Research Center) in the 1970's. System R introduced the SQL language and also demonstrated that a relational system could provide good transaction processing performance. To learn more about System R, you can read: The 1995 SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics an informal but first-hand ...
Everything you always wanted to know about mousepads with a large collectio n of scanned pads ...
AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS By William Henry Gates III February 3, 1976 An Open Letter to Hobbyists To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software courses, books and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be written for the hobby market Almost a year ago, Paul ...
www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html
LinkScan Finds Broken Links and Creates SiteMaps. Developed by Electronic Software Publishing Corporation (Elsop) ...
www.elsop.com/wrc/h_comput.htm
The Atari Time Machine - The digital history of Atari from 1972 to 1996. The Pioneer of the video game and home computer industry.
homepage.eircom.net/~morrikar
CAN YOU GUESS THE COMPUTER This PBS Online interactive game lets you test your knowledge of computers and ultimately, learn your nerd quotient. Two versions are available: 1) An HTML version 2) A Shockwave-enhanced version (If you don't have the Shockwave plug-in, you'll need to download it.) || History || Who Are These Nerds || Guess the Computer || The Transcript || || Comments || Q & A With ...
www.pbs.org/nerds/game.html
The invention of the world's first automatic totalisator by Sir George Julius in 1913 and some history of Automatic Totalisators the company he founded which became a world monopoly in this field.
members.ozemail.com.au/~bconlon
HiTMilL's Directory, History of Computers links, a compiled directory of specific topic links and general computer history links for students and researchers.
www.hitmill.com/computers/computerhx1.html
Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member By Bob Lash bob@bambi.net Last Update: April 20th, 2002 My first exposure to computers was at age 6 (1963), as a subject in Dr. Patrick Suppes' accelerated mathematics experiment at Stanford. I was taken to a small room with what I now know was a CRT display and an intercom. I was asked to push some keys in response to some shapes on the screen.
www.bambi.net/bob/homebrew.html
The History Of Computers During My Lifetime by Jason Patterson (jason@pattosoft.com.au) In this document I take a quick look at the great moments in the history of computers during my lifetime. Over time it should hopefully build up to become a fascinating look back into history. In fact it is already quite interesting, even though I'm still a youngster! PS: If you think I've missed something, ...
www.pattosoft.com.au/jason/Articles/HistoryOfComputers
The story of Mel Source: usenet: utastro!nather, May 21, 1983. A recent article devoted to the *macho* side of programming made the bald and unvarnished statement: Real Programmers write in Fortran. Maybe they do now, in this decadent era of Lite beer, hand calculators and user-friendly software but back in the Good Old Days, when the term software sounded funny and Real Computers were made out ...
www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
Computer History Images Charles Babbage designed the first computer, starting in 1823. Though not completed until 1990 ( ), his Difference Engine worked. Ada King, Countess of Lovelace and daughter of Lord Byron, wrote programs for the Difference Engine, thus becoming the world's first programmer. The ENIAC was the first successful electronic digital computer. The Fiftieth Anniversary of ENIAC ...
www.crowl.org/Lawrence/history
Nascom Nostalgia is the home for Nasemu, a Nascom-2 Emulator.
For the Collector And Enthusiast of Classic or Vintage Computer Equipment ...
Dedicated to eternal computing ...