Directory of Historical Resources

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A collection of materials relating to the history of computing.

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• APF
• Altair 8800
• Apple
• Collecting
• Colossus
• Commodore
• Cray
• DEC
• General History
• HP
• IBM
• Intel
• Retrocomputing
• Tandy
• UNIVAC
• Xerox

Resources in This Category

• BESM-6 Nostalgia Page

  http://www.mailcom.com/besm6/
  Information about the late Soviet mainframe computer BESM-6, the last original was dismantled in 1995.

• Blinkenlights Archaeological Institute

  http://www.blinkenlights.com/
  The Institute was established in 1997 to excavate, preserve, research, and present interesting and historically significant computing devices.

• Charles Babbage Institute

  http://www.cbi.umn.edu/
  CBI is a research center dedicated to promoting the study of the history of computing and its impact on society, and preserving relevant documentation.

• Enigma Replica

  http://www.enigma-replica.com/
  Shows all processes involved Building a replica of the German M4 Naval Enigma.

• John Elliott

  http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/
  Dedicated to computers and/or operating systems which some might describe as obsolete.

• Mechanical Aids to Calculation

  http://members.ozemail.com.au/~bconlon/calcaids.htm
  History on the first automatic totalizer by Sir George Julius, mechanical aids to calculation - extracts of a paper presented to the Institution of Engineers Australia in 1920.

• PC - History

  http://pc-history.org/
  Devoted to the history of the PC, covers all types of personal computers from 1970 to present.

• Retro Computer Gallery

  http://www.imarshall.karoo.net/
  Collection of pictures of old computers, consoles, handhelds and magazines.

• The Burroughs B-205 Computer

  http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/B205/index.html
  A mixture of science fiction and fact concerning the B205.

• The Computer Closet

  http://www.computercloset.org/
  Rescues classic microcomputers and video games from the junk heap.

• The Oldskool PC Shrines

  http://www.oldskool.org/shrines/
  Honoring personal computing in the 1980s.

• The SWTPC Computer Documentation Repository

  http://www.swtpc.com/
  Documentation for the SWTPC computer line.

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