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Online PDP-8 Home Page
Run a PDP-8 online. Information on the Digital PDP-8 computer and peripherals. Blinking lights, core, paper tape, what more could you want
 www.pdp8.net/ reviews
Vintage Computer Festival
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.
www.vintage.org/ reviews
Calculating Machines
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. ...
www.webcom.com/calc/ reviews
Chronology of Personal Computers
Chronology of Personal Computers: timeline of events tracing the history of personal computers, from the late 1960s to date ...
www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist/ reviews
Mind Machine Museum
Web museum of vintage computers, calculators, video games, and artifacts ...
userwww.sfsu.edu/~hl/mmm.html reviews
Past Notable Women of Computing & Mathematics
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 reviews
STIM - MouseSite
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/ reviews
Historic Computer Images
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/ reviews
The Computer History Simulation Project
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 ...
simh.trailing-edge.com/ reviews
Howard rheingold's | tools for thought
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/ reviews
Silicon Valley History
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 reviews
System R
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 ...
www.mcjones.org/System_R/ reviews
Bill Gates' Open Letter to Hobbyists
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 reviews
Computer Industry History
LinkScan Finds Broken Links and Creates SiteMaps. Developed by Electronic Software Publishing Corporation (Elsop) ...
www.elsop.com/wrc/h_comput.htm reviews
The Atari Time Machine (Home)
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/ reviews
Triumph of the Nerds: Guess the Computer
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 reviews
History of Computers
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 reviews
Homebrew Computer Club
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 reviews
The History Of Computers During My Lifetime
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/ reviews
The story of Mel
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 reviews
Computer History Images -- Lawrence A. Crowl
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/ reviews
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