See also:
Sites:
- The
Association for History and Computing
- An international organization which aims to promote and develop
interest in the use of computers in all types of historical
study at every level, in both teaching and research.
- Charles
Babbage Institute (CBI) - A research center at the University
of Minnesota dedicated to promoting the study and preservation
of the history of computing and information processing.
- Chronology of Personal Computers - Timeline of
microcomputers from the development of the microprocessor in
the 1960s through to the present day. Includes hardware, software,
peripherals, companies, and individuals.
- Computer History - Articles and photos on many
topics; user submitted content with Wiki-style editing for registered
users; photo gallery, forum, feedback.
- Computer
History Association of California - Non-profit corporation,
safeguards and organizes the history of electronic computing,
internationally, nationally, and in California. They collect
and archive hardware, software, and documents.
- Computer History Images - Pictures of many of
the pioneering computers.
- Computer
History Museum - Focuses exclusively on the history of computing.
Located in Mountain View, 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).
- Computer Industry History - A list of links to
the best computer industry history resources that can currently
be found on the Net.
- Computers in the Computer age - A look at the
progression in computer technology throughout the ages.
- Computers, Videogames and Arcade Collector's Ring
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- History of Computers - A directory of sites about
the history of computers arranged categorically and with specific
topic and general topic sections.
- The
History of Computing - Detailed information including early
pioneers and companies, archives, languages, and networking
from the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.
- The
History of Computing Project - Offers a detailed timeline
on the history of computer. Sections include hardware, software,
pioneers and references.
- The
History of Computing Science: From the Past to the Present
- Lecture presented by Michelle A. 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.
- Jargon
File Resources - The Jargon File (AKA, _The New Hacker's
Dictionary_) is an essential repository of computer historical
information.
- The Modern History of Computing - Historical survey
from Babbage onward; by B. Jack Copeland from the Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy.
- Museum of the USSR Computers History - A virtual
museum containing historical information on computers and computer
facilities in the USSR. Includes descriptions of computers,
their characteristics, pictures, and personalities.
- National Archive for the History of Computing
- 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
Obsolete Technology Website - Pictures, documents, and advertisements
of classic computers from the 1970's and 1980's.
- PC
History - This site is under construction but has some nice
pictures of some pre-IBM machines.
- Punched Cards - Covers the earliest ways of encoding
data up to the cards used in voting systems today.
- Reflections of a ModemJunkie - Writings on computers,
the early online world, and the Internet, dating from 1992 to
2000.
- Silicon Valley to Internet Valley - In San Francisco
Bay Area; background, history, future: trends, forecasts.
- Tools For Thought - by Howard Rheingold. Online
copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of computing;
includes Babbage, Turing, von Neumann, Engelbart, PARC, Kay,
and Atari.
- Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding
Technology - New updated edition from MIT Press, with new
interviews of historic characters.
- Triumph
of the Nerds - Biographies, an interactive game, and a questions
and answers forum trace the birth of the personal computer at
this PBS companion site.
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