- About.com: The History of Computers
Presents a computer history timeline.
inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm
- Antikythera Mechanism@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Ancient_Greek_Science/Antikythera_Mechanism
- Apple Computer@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Apple__Inc_/History
- Atari Archives
Full-text books, articles, and software for Atari and other classic computers.
www.atariarchives.org
- Atari Time Machine
Digital history of Atari, including their video game systems, personal computers, and the company itself.
www.atari-explorer.com
- Bill Gates' Open Letter to Hobbyists
1976 request from Bill Gates that users of the Altair personal computer stop pirating Altair BASIC.
www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html
- Blinkenlights Archaeological Institute
Devoted to early personal computers.
www.blinkenlights.com
- Braeburn
Provides articles about the history of computing and technology in general.
braeburn.ath.cx
- Brief History of Computing
Timeline of computer development, from the first mechanical calculators to modern computers and the Internet.
ox.compsoc.net/~swhite/history.html
- Chronology of Personal Computers
Bring various published sources together to present a timeline about personal computers.
www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist
- ClassicCmp
Resource for enthusiasts of classic computer hardware, software, and documentation.
www.classiccmp.org
- Computer History Simulation Project
Internet-based collective of people interested in restoring historically significant computer hardware and software systems by simulation.
simh.trailing-edge.com
- Computer Languages History
Features a timeline and links to sites about the history of the development of various programming languages.
www.levenez.com/lang
- Computer Lore Gopher
gopher://wiretap.area.com/11/Library/Techdoc/Lore
- Computissimo
Photo collection of micro-computers, video games, microprocessors, mechanical and electronic calculators, and more.
www.computissimo.ch
- Cybercinema
Devoted to the history of computers and artificial intelligence in film.
128.174.194.59/cybercinema
- 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.
www.digibarn.com
- Digidome
Collection of antique computers, software, books, and peripherals.
www.digidome.nl
- Digital Moments
Photojournalist and commercial photographer whose work has been featured in the A Day in the Life of America series.
www.menuez.com
- ENIAC (2)
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/ENIAC
- First Virtual Mousepad Museum
Large collection of scanned images of mousepads.
www.expa.hvu.nl/ajvdhek
- Folklore
Captures and presents sets of related stories that describe interesting events from multiple perspectives, allowing groups of people to recount their shared computer histories in the form of interlinked anecdotes.
www.folklore.org
- Guess the Computer
www.pbs.org/nerds/game.html
- Historic Computer Images [arl.mil]
ftp.arl.mil/ftp/historic-computers
- History of Computer Security
Offers unpublished, seminal works in computer security compiled by the Computer Security Laboratory of the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Davis.
csrc.nist.gov/publications/history
- History of Computers During My Lifetime, The
From the 1970s to the 1990s.
www.pattosoft.com.au/jason/Articles/HistoryOfComputers
- History of the Computer
Brief history of computers and computing.
www.softlord.com/comp
- History of the IBM Typewriter
Timeline and pictures of the typewriter, the antecedent of present day computers.
www.etypewriters.com/history.htm
- Hitmill: History of Computers
Glossary and directory about the history of computing.
www.hitmill.com/computers/computerhx1.html
- Home Computer Hall of Fame
dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/chriss/hchof/hchof.html
- Lena Image@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Graphics/Lena_Image
- Machine Room, The
Technical specifications, descriptions, trivia, and pictures of so-called obsolete computers from a variety of manufacturers, as well as links to more information.
www.machine-room.org
- Manchester Mark 1@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Computers_and_Internet/History
- 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.
www.bambi.net/bob/homebrew.html
- 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.
sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite
- Nascom Nostalgia
History, Nascom-2 emulator and applications.
www.myplace.nu/nascom
- Northstar Horizon
Features information and downloads for the Northstar Horizon and other S-100 based CP/M machines from the late 1970s.
www.hartetec.com/s100
- Obsolete Laboratory
Discussion forums on classic computers, emulation, classic gaming, and networking.
www.obsoletelab.com
- Obsolyte
A personal retrospective of "cool" computing dedicated to vintage computer hardware, classic systems, and workstations or "mainframes."
www.obsolyte.com
- Old-Computers.com
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Online museum of computer models, magazine, and collector community.
www.old-computers.com
- PC History
Timeline of personal computing with a collection of pictures.
www.pc-history.org
- Redundant Technology Initiative (RTI)
Finding new ways to be creative with old technology, and exhibiting the results.
www.lowtech.org
- Silicon Valley History: View from Internet Valley
www.internetvalley.com/svhistory.html
- Smithsonian Computer History Collection
Transcripts of interviews with Smithsonian ComputerworldAward Winners, including Bill Gates, Seymour Cray, and others.
americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist
- Story of Mel, The
The story of a *real* Real Programmer
www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
- System R
Introduced the SQL language and also demonstrated that a relational system could provide good transaction processing performance.
www.mcjones.org/System_R
- Terak Museum
An early personal computer made by the Terak Corporation of Scottsdale, Arizona. It was sold from about 1979 until 1985.
www.threedee.com/terak
- Totalisator History
History of automatic totalisator, a device for calculating bets on a race.
members.ozemail.com.au/~bconlon
- Triumph of the Nerds
A companion Web site for the PBS television special about the history of the computer industry.
www.pbs.org/nerds
- Univac Memories
www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/index.html
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities - Charles Babbage Institute
Research center dedicated to the preservation of the history of information processing.
www.cbi.umn.edu
- Virtual Mousepad Museum
www.expa.hvu.nl/ajvdhek/mouse.htm
- 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.
vmoc.museophile.com
- Xanadu (3)
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Xanadu
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