Includes hardware, software, peripherals, companies, and individuals.
computerhistory.org
catb.org/~esr
/jargon/
www.internetvalley.com/introduction.html
ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/
cbi definitive
Computers, Videogames and Arcade
Collector`s Ring
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Computer History Museum
www.hitmill.com/computers/computerhx1.html
microcomputers safeguards
Comprehensive list
of links to the best computer industry history resources that can currently be found on the `Net
Detailed
information including early pioneers and companies, archives, languages, and networking from the Department
of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.
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www.cbi.umn.edu/
National Archive for the History of Computing
The
History of Computing
The Obsolete Technology Website
cbi fellows
Covers the earliest ways of encoding data up to the
cards used in voting systems today.
The History of Computing Project
babbage punched
Pictures of many of the pioneering
computers.
Computer Industry History
A virtual museum containing historical information on computers and
computer facilities in the USSR.
PC History
babbage curator
Chronology of Personal Computers
Timeline of microcomputers
from the development of the microprocessor in the 1960s through to the present day. Sections include
hardware, software, pioneers and references.
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www.elsop.com/wrc/h_comput.htm
Punched Cards
www.pbs.org/nerds
/
rheingold nerds
www.lgrossman.com/mjnk/
plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-history/
Historical survey from Babbage onward;
by B. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of computing; includes Babbage, Turing, von
Neumann, Engelbart, PARC, Kay, and Atari.
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A research center at the University of Minnesota dedicated
to promoting the study and preservation of the history of computing and information processing.
punched hoyle
They
collect and archive hardware, software, and documents. Located in Mountain View, California.
www.chez
.com/samurai/RING/ring.htm
Hoyle explaining how computers and computing science arose from using sticks
with notches for counting, to the massive explosion of personal computers in the 1980s.
www.rheingold
.com/texts/tft/
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History of Computers
engelbart arose
Non-profit corporation, safeguards and organizes the history of electronic
computing, internationally, nationally, and in California. Search the collection, illustrated timeline
, online exhibits and select images from the collection, "This Day in History," curator`s
choice, and the Hall of Fellows (awards for contributions to computing).
Jargon File Resources
Houses
the UK`s most important collection of documents relating to the history of computing, and encourages
interest and study in the history of computing more generally.
The Modern History of Computing
Tools For
Thought
Triumph of the Nerds
Bios, an interactive game, and a Q&A forum trace the birth of the personal
computer at this PBS companion site.
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The History of Computing Science: From the Past to the Present
obsolete videogames
Charles
Babbage Institute (CBI)
www.computingnet.co.uk
Writings on computers, the early online world, and the
Internet, dating from 1992 to 2000.Pictures, documents, and advertisements of classic computers from
the 1970`s and 1980`s.
videogames hoyle
Computer History Association of California
Computing Millennium timeline
A project
to create the definitive list of the 1,000 key innovations and events in the last 1,000 years of information
technology.A directory of sites about the history of computers arranged categorically and with specific
topic and general topic sections.The Jargon File (AKA, _The New Hacker`s Dictionary_) is an essential
repository of computer historical information.Offers a detailed timeline on the history of computer
.
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www.bashedu.ru/konkurs/tarhov/english/index_e.htm
Includes descriptions of computers, their characteristics
, pictures, and personalities.
Reflections of a ModemJunkie
Lecture presented by Michelle A.
curator jargon
www.chstm.man
.ac.uk/nahc/
mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3784
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Computer History Images
pc-history
.org/
www.thocp.net
oldcomputers.net
by Howard Rheingold.
curator pioneering
Focuses exclusively on the history of computing
.
Museum of the USSR Computers History
www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/index.html
pioneers turing
Silicon Valley History and
Future
Silicon Valley -- San Francisco Bay Area -- background, trends and forecast
lecture.eingang.org
/
Jack Copeland from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
microcomputers notches
www.Crowl.org/Lawrence/history/
New updated
edition from MIT Press, with new interviews of historic characters.
babbage microprocessor
www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist
/
www.chac.org/
This site is under construction but has some nice pictures of some pre-IBM machines.
Tools
for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology
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