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References are essays, articles, descriptions, chronologies charts, that may contribute to an understanding of computer history or the history of computing, in general.

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• A Brief History of Computing

  http://trillian.randomstuff.org.uk/~stephen/history/
  Personal homepage that offers an insight into the history of hardware, the Internet and the Windows operating system.

• A Brief History of the Computer

  http://www.jeremymeyers.com/comp
  The author takes the user through a short tour of computer history including subjects such as advances in the 50's and 60's. Also includes photos of Charles Babbage and Herman Hollerith.

• Automatic Totalisator, The

  http://members.ozemail.com.au/~bconlon/computer.htm
  Relating to the invention of the world's first automatic totalisator in 1913. A multi user system in 1913 with 30 terminals.

• Computer Chronicles: From Stone to Silicon

  http://wayback.archive-it.org/3635/20140211215215/http:/library.thinkquest.org/22522/
  Uses a timeline to take the user through the various milestones of computer technology. Subjects include the abacus, vacuum tubes, transistors and microprocessors. First published by Thinkquest and now archived.

• Computer50.org

  http://curation.cs.manchester.ac.uk/computer50/www.computer50.org/
  50th Anniversary Celebrations of the Manchester Baby computer and the Manchester Mark 1 and Ferranti Mark 1.

• History of Computers - During my Lifetime

  http://www.lighterra.com/articles/historyofcomputers/
  Select events from a timeline spanning the 1970's to the 1990's. Subjects include the Commodore PET, the Amiga, RISC architectures and virtual reality.

• History of Computers - hitmill.com

  http://www.hitmill.com/computers/computerhx1.html
  A collection of web resources sorted alphabetically. Topics include the Abacus, Eniac, Charles Babbage and Bill Gates.

• History of Hard Drives

  http://www.logicsmith.com/hdhistory.html
  A brief look at the history from an ex-IBM technician. Includes the first IBM RAMAC disk drive.

• HomeLib

  http://www.devili.iki.fi/library/
  A searchable index for classical computer magazines and books, mainly from end of the seventies and beginning of the eighties. Provides a table of contents for each book.

• Mind Machine Museum

  http://userwww.sfsu.edu/hl/mmm.html
  A collection of information and illustrations on the subjects of computers, calculators and games. Topics include the IBM 5100 portable computer and the Commodore KIM-1 and VIC 20 microcomputers.

• NCR Computers of the 20th Century

  http://www.thecorememory.com/
  Site about NCR computers of the 20th Century dedicated to those who programmed, maintained and operated them.

• New Zealand Bits & Bytes Computer Magazine Archive

  http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/bits-and-bytes/
  This site contains a downloadble archive of early issues of the microcomputer magazine New Zealand Bits & Bytes, from the early eighties

• Quux.Org Archive & Library

  gopher://quux.org/
  An archive aimed at preserving important pieces of computing and general history. Source code and programs with an eye towards emulators and rare/endangered code. Also specifications and photos of old equipment and several e-book collections.

• The Evolution of the Modern Computer: An Open Source Graphical History

  http://www.virtualtravelog.net/category/computer-history/
  Hosts Computer Evolution File, tries to be a complete graphical representation of the evolution of computers for the period 1934 to 1950. License: Creative Commons, Attribution, Share Alike.

• The History of Computer Science: From the Past to the Present

  http://www.eingang.org/Lecture/
  An overview of the developments that allowed the modern day computer to arise from first principles, including looking at Stonehenge, ENIAC, Pascaline, and Turing machines.

• The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC)

  http://museums.wikia.com/wiki/VMoC
  Links to on-line resources concerning the history of computing around the world, including pioneers of the field such as Alan Turing.

• The Ways of Counting

  http://www.emeagwali.com/essays/technology/computing/history-of-computing-abacus-logarithm-eniac-supercomputers.html
  Essay on the history of computers from the abacus, logarithm, ENIAC, and massively parallel computers. Written by computer pioneer Philip Emeagwali.

 

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