- Digital Moments
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Photographic history of moments in the computer industry. - 8080, Octal, and Computing [IA][Direct] -
History of the 8080.
- 80's Textfile Archive [IA][Direct] -
Historical archive for the hacker scene of the 1980s.
- Apple Computer@ (1999)
- Byron King, Ada, Countess of Lovelace [IA][Direct] -
The first computer programmer.
- Care and Feeding of Elderly Computers [IA][Direct] -
Collection of computers, many of which were made in the UK. Advice about how to go about preserving old computers.
- Carl Friend's Minicomputer "Museum" [IA][Direct] -
A personal collection of DG, DEC, and other small computers, peripherals, and "stuff".
- Chronology of Digital Computing Machines [IA][Direct]
- Chronology of Events in the History of Microcomputers [IA][Direct] -
Timelime of trivial and significant events in making personal computer hardware and software what it is today.
- Classic Technology of the Eighties [IA][Direct]
- Computer Collection, The [IA][Direct] -
Take a virtual tour of a collection of antique minicomputers, microcomputers, peripherals and terminals.
- Computer History and Folklore [IA][Direct] -
Collection of documents and links relating to computer history and folklore
- Computer History Association of California (CHAC) [IA][Direct] -
Studying, preserving, protecting and popularizing the history of electronic computing, while gathering the forces to build a museum.
- Computer History Institute for the Preservation of Software (CHIPS) [IA][Direct]
- Computer Preservation Society (Inc) of New Zealand [IA][Direct] -
A New Zealand group dedicated to preserving Historic computer hardware and Software.
- ENIAC@ (1997)
- ENIAC 50th Anniversary Celebration [IA][Direct]
- ENIAC Virtual Museum [IA][Direct]
- Ferranti MarkI Prototype [IA][Direct] -
A collection of photographs of work in progress in 1949 on the prototype of the Ferranti MarkI digital computer at Manchester University, England.
- Generations [IA][Direct] -
A virtual computer history museum.
- German Web Computer Museum [IA][Direct] -
Chronology of microcomputers and personal computers since about 1974 until 1990. Desctriptions of historic computers like Altair-8800, Apple Lisa and the IBM PC.
- Habitats [IA][Direct] -
Are graphical online communities populated by avatars. The first habitat was developed at Lucasfilm in 1985. Examples include WorldsAway, Worlds Chat, The Palace, AlphaWorld, and V-Link.
- Historical Computer Society [IA][Direct] -
And Virtual Microcomputer History Museum.
- Historic Computer Images [arl.mil] [IA][Direct]
- Historic Computer Images [curie.fr] [IA][Direct] -
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.
- History@ (1996)
- History of Computing, The [Los Alamos] [IA][Direct]
- History of Computing [U. Regina] [IA][Direct] -
A lecture prepared for an introductory Computer Science class about the history of computing devices, starting from the development of computing and progressing through to the late 80s. Includes nice colour slides.
- History of Computing [vt.edu] [IA][Direct]
- History of the Computer [IA][Direct] -
A report i did in eighth grade about the history of computers. Hope you like it
- Home Computer Hall of Fame [IA][Direct]
- Hot Topic: Unix 25th Anniversary [IA][Direct]
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing [IA][Direct] -
Chronicles significant historical contributions and their impact on computing and society today.
- Jim's Computer Garage [IA][Direct] -
My collection of computers and associated equipment that I have built, known, worked with, admired, or saved from a fate worse than the scrap heap.
- Machine That Changed the World, The [IA][Direct] -
Based on the TV series by WGBH
- Mechanical Calculating Machines [IA][Direct] -
This site by by Erez Kaplan, is all about mechanical calculating. It includes chronological description, classification and pictorial view (dozens of photographs), books, organizations and much more.
- Mind Machine Museum [IA][Direct] -
An illustrated listing of a large collection of historic computers, calculators, boards, ICs, and computer-related games.
- Obsolete Computer Museum [IA][Direct] -
Collection of old computers, lotsa 8-bits. Also has links to resources for some of the systems.
- Past Notable Women of Computing [IA][Direct]
- Retrocomputing Museum, The [IA][Direct] -
Dedicated to programs that induce sensations that hover somewhere between nostalgia and nausea -- the freaks, jokes, and fossils of computing history.
- Revolutionaries, The [IA][Direct] -
Interview series explores the exciting, often surprising stories of Silicon Valley's innovation and inspiration.
- Rice Computer, 1959-1971 [IA][Direct] -
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 [IA][Direct]
- Silicon Valley History: View from Internet Valley [IA][Direct]
- Smithsonian Computer History [IA][Direct] -
Transcripts of interviews with Smithsonian ComputerworldAward Winners, including Bill Gates, Seymour Cray, and others.
- Story of Mel, The [IA][Direct] -
The story of a *real* Real Programmer
- System R [IA][Direct] -
Introduced the SQL language and also demonstrated that a relational system could provide good transaction processing performance.
- Terak Museum [IA][Direct] -
An early personal computer made by the Terak Corporation of Scottsdale, Arizona. It was sold from about 1979 until 1985.
- Triumph of the Nerds [IA][Direct] -
A companion Web site for the PBS television special.
- Turing, Alan [IA][Direct] -
Important gay man who helped design the first computer and developed an early computer that cracked military codes.
- Unisys History Newsletter [IA][Direct] -
Information about UNIVAC, Sperry, Burroughs etc.
- Univac Memories [IA][Direct]
- Virtual Mousepad Museum [IA][Direct]
- Virtual Museum of Computing [IA][Direct] -
An eclectic collection of hyperlinks connected with the history of computing and on-line computer-based exhibits available both locally and around the world.
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