Sites related to the History of Computing

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• Ada Project (Internet Resources for Women in Computer Science)
• Atanasoff Obituary
• Atanasoff, John Vincent Archive
• A Comparison Between Intel Paragon and ENIAC

• Calculating Machines (Erez Kaplan)
• Chronology of Personal Computers, by Ken Polsson
• Colossus rebuild project
• Commercial Computing Museum - Computer History Web Sites
• Computer History and Development - Jones Multimedia Encyclopedia
• Computer History and Folklore, by Michael Stillwell
• Computer History Association of California (CHAC)
• Computing History, University of America some very interesting pages on unexpected historic aspects

• Digibarn, the DigiBarn Computer Museum, which is a physical and a CyberMuseum

• Eckert Obituary
• ENIAC 50th Anniversary Celebration
• ENIAC 50th Anniversary Celebration (Events)
• ENIAC and The Growth of Television
• ENIAC: Celebrating the birth of modern computing (Penn Printout)
• ENIAC Exhibit
• ENIAC, The Historical Context for
• ENIAC, Landmarks in Digital Computing
• ENIAC II in The Journal of the PK Institute for Information Engineering (Fantasy/Humor). Looking Back At ENIAC: Computers Hit Half-Century Mark, by Neeraja Sankaran, The Scientist V9#16, 1995.
• Photo Gallery - ENIAC
• The ENIAC Papers UPenn Archives & Records Center, Index to court testimony regarding ENIAC.

• Famous Vaporware Products
• Ferranti Mark I rebuild project

• Historic Computer Images, by Michael John Muuss - dead link
• History of Computers BAE 221 course notes.
• History of Computing, by J.A.N. Lee
• History of Modern Computing In General (Zuse, Bell, Aiken, Eckert)

• IEEE Annals of the History of Computer, from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

• Lost Museum of Sciences Computer Exhibit

• John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer, from the Penn Special Collections Exhibit
• Mechanical Calculating Machines
• Media history an overall general site dedicated to the various media subjects like internet, hypertext etc
• The Micro Computer Revolution by Frank Delaney
• MO5 a site you must have seen, very informative on the French situation (in French)
• Museum of Obsolete Computers, by Tom Carlson

• John von Neumann

• Russian Developments at Elbrus

• Smithsonian Exhibit: Information Age: People, Information & Technology, National Museum of American History
• Smithsonian Computer History
• Stephen Whites History of Computing a  site dedicated to the history of computing
• Study Web articles on the history of computing

• Telemuseum -History of Telecommunications, Sweden [in Swedish and English], National Museum of Science and Technology
• The History of Computing, notes from "The Machine That Changed The World"
• The National Archive for the History of Computing (UK)
• The Machine That Changed the World, from the WGBH documentary
• The Matrix: Community Memory, a CPSR discussion list
• The Micro Computer Revolution by Frank Delaney
• The National Archive for the History of Computing, Manchester, England
• The Virtual Museum of Computing, by J.P.Bowen
• There's a supercomputing race between --- The Chickens and the Ox
• TNO Netherlands a site that contains the entire history of TNO's computers
• Triumph Of The Nerds: History of the Computer -- from the PBS television documentary

• Unisys History Newsletter, by George Gray and Randy Carpenter

• Virtual Museum of Computing large site on this subject

• Yahoo's list of sites on Computers and Internet: History. you'll never finish to browse the list yahoo presents

• Xerox 8010 ('Star') System

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• Information Science Hall of Fame
• Manhattan Project produced new group of super heroes ... physicists, By Kirk Saville, Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.
• First Generation Electronic Computers (1937-1953) From An Overview Of Computational Science.
• Exhibits viewable in the American History Museums Information Age Gallery
• Biography of John W. Mauchly
• The Origins and Future of the Internet: Of Secret Codes, Superhighways, and Sputnik (and ENIAC)
• History of Mathematics and Related Fields
• The Development of the Computer
• Computing The Media History Project Connections Pages
• Hobbes' Internet Timeline
• The Colossus Rebuild Project A British WWII-era vacuum-tube programmable logic calculator.
• Konrad Zuse: a guided tour of his computers. The Z3 was build with relays and finished in 1941. While never used in production, it was the world's first program controlled computer, pre-dating ENIAC by two years.
• Birthplace of the World's First Business Computer (Rowayton Historical Society)
• The Calculator Reference (Rick Furr)
• Chip Directory by Jaap van Ganswijk
• Chronology of Events in the History of Microcomputers
• Computer History Association of California
• Computer History Institute for the Preservation of Software (CHIPS)
• Computers and Emulation Page maintained by Marat Fayzullin
• Computermuseum: Commercial Computer Museum
• DEC PDP-8 computer information (Doug Jones)
• Electronic Buyer's News 25th Anniversary Retrospective
• ENIAC Anniversary Web Page at U Penn
• Ernie Jorgenson's Office Machine Americana
• History of Computing Information (The U. S. Army Research Lab)
• History of Computing Page from J. Lee course on "Professionalism in Computing."
• History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Australian National University)
• HP Calculator Museum
• Internet, A Brief History
• Internet Protocols at CERN, A Short History of
• Lisp History Web Page
• List of Chips 7.1 by Aad Offerman
• Machine That Changed the World (based on WGBH/BBC series)
• Manchester Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the First Stored-Program Computer
• Mechanical Calculating Machines (Michel Bardel's list)
• MULTICS History
• Museum of Soviet Calculators on the Web (MOSCOW)
• National Archive for the History of Computing (University of Manchester)
• NSFNET Backbone Project (1987 - 1995)
• Paul Pierce Computer Collection Site
• Pearcey Foundation
• PhoneTel on Line: History (Telephone Answering Machine)
• Die Rechenmaschine Z3 von KONRAD ZUSE (in German)
• Software Archives - Amsterdam (microcomputer oriented)
• System R Database Project (1995 SQL Reunion)
• Software History Center
• Totalisator History
• ENIAC 50th Anniversary Celebration. The first electronic computer. Includes a programming course covering detailed operations.
• chronology of computer history. Mitch Theys has a good chronology
• CSIRO Division of Radiophysics This is where CSIRAC was constructed, between 1947 and 1949
• Events in the History of Computing IEEE Computer Society's Events in the History of Computing make interesting reading, but sadly don't have any information on CSIRAC.
• ILLIAC I. The University of Illinois' computer completed in 1952
• The Virtual Museum of Computing (at Oxford University)
• The Virtual Museum of Manchester Computing
• TRAC Programming Language (Calvin Mooers)
• Unisys History Newsletter
• United States Army Historic Computer Images
• Unix 25th Anniversary (on Amdahl WWW)
• Punched Cards Douglas Jones at the University of Iowa gives a very detailed account of Punched Cards and their many "standards".
• Sydney University constructed a machine between 1953-1956, based on the ILLIAC, called the SILLIAC.
• The Manchester Mark I, known also as "The Baby" constructed in 1948, approaches it's 50th Anniversary..
• The Museum of HP Calculators The Museum of HP Calculators makes very interesting reading for the calculator collector.
• Unisys History Newsletter
• United States Army Historic Computer Images Unix 25th Anniversary (on Amdahl WWW)
• Virtual Museum of Computing The Virtual Museum of Computing has a LARGE list of other sites that you may be interested in!
• Waaldorp TNO (a Dutch research institute) has all its used computers on display here
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Simon & Schuster, 1996)
• Women and Computer Science

Sites to find more interesting material on various related subjects

• A Comparison Between Intel Paragon and ENIAC
• Atanasoff Obituary
• Biography of John W. Mauchly
• cis.upenn.edu
• cm.cf.ac.uk
• Commercial Computing Museum - Computer History Web Sites
• Computer History and Development - Jones Multimedia Encyclopedia
• Computers HQ index listing on computer history sites
• Computing The Media History Project Connections Pages
• cs.purdue.edu
• csl.sri.com
• digitalmonalisa.com; digital mona lisa a beauty!
• Eckert Obituary
• eng.auburn.edu
• Exhibits viewable in the American History Museums Information Age Gallery
• First Generation Electronic Computers (1937-1953) From An Overview Of Computational Science.
• fs1.itdean.umn.edu
• fuzine.mt.cs.cmu.edu fuzzy@cmu.edu
• galaxy
• gopher.usl.edu
• Hobbes' Internet Timeline
• info.cs.vt.edu
• info.mcc.ac.uk
• Information Science Hall of Fame
• issl.cs.byu.edu
• jhu.edu
• John von Neumann
• Konrad Zuse: a guided tour of his computers. The Z3 was build with relays and finished in 1941. While never used in production, it was the world's first program controlled computer, pre-dating ENIAC by two years.
• Landmarks in Digital Computing: The ENIAC
• let.rug.nl
• Looking Back At ENIAC: Computers Hit Half-Century Mark, by Neeraja Sankaran, The Scientist V9#16, 1995.
• Luddites Ballad
• Luddites in science
• Luddites: more information
• lycos2.cs.cmu.edu
• Manhattan Project produced new group of superheroes ... physicists, By Kirk Saville, Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.
• Mechanical Calculating Machines
• nuinfo.nwu.edu
• Photo Gallery - ENIAC
• Smithsonian Computer History
• The John Vincent Atanasoff Archive
• The History of Computing, notes from "The Machine That Changed The World"
• The National Archive for the History of Computing (UK)
• The History of Modern Computing In General (Zuse, Bell, Aiken, Eckert)
• There's a supercomputing race between --- The Chickens and the Ox
• The ENIAC Papers UPenn Archives & Records Center, Index to court testimony regarding ENIAC.
• The Historical Context for the Eniac
• The Lost Museum of Sciences Computer Exhibit
• The Origins and Future of the Internet: Of Secret Codes, Superhighways, and Sputnik (and ENIAC)
• History of Mathematics and Related Fields
• The Development of the Computer
• The Colossus Rebuild Project A British WWII-era vacuum-tube programmable logic calculator.
• ucar.edu
• wimsey.com
• www.cis.upenn.edu
• www.cm.cf.ac.uk
• www.cs.purdue.edu wiegman@cs.purdue.edu
• www.csl.sri.com
• www.eng.auburn.edu
• www.jhu.edu
• www.let.rug.nl
• www.ucar.edu
• www.wimsey.com

Last Updated on 21 December, 2007

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