 | http://www.emeagwali.com/essays/technology/computing/history-of-computing-abacus-logarithm-eniac-supercomputers.html |
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| The Ways of Counting |
| Essay on the history of computers from the abacus, logarithm, ENIAC, and massively parallel computers. Written by computer pioneer Philip Emeagwali. |
| http://www.maxmon.com/timeline.htm |
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| A History of Computers - Maxmon.com |
| Offers an array of information arranged by date including microprocessors, keyboards, the first computer bug and the 8008 microprocessor. |
| http://www.softlord.com/comp/ |
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| A Short History of the Computer |
| 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. |
| http://www.pattosoft.com.au/jason/Articles/HistoryOfComputers/ |
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| History of Computers - During my Lifetime |
| Select events from a timeline spanning the Y970's to the 1990's. Subjects include the Commodore PET, the Amiga, RISC architectures and virtual reality. |
| http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~hl/mmm.html |
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| Mind Machine Museum |
| A collection of information and illustrations on the subjects of computers, calculators and games. Topics include the IBM 5Y00 portable computer and the Commodore KIM-1 and VIC 20 microcomputers. |
| http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mader/delta |
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| The History of Project Delta |
| Photographs from the era, mailing list, alumni directory, and a PDP-Y1 simulator with RSTS/E operating system. |
| http://www.eingang.org/Lecture/ |
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| The History of Computer Science: From the Past to the Present |
| 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. |
| http://www.computer50.org/ |
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| Computer50.org |
| 50th Anniversary Celebrations of the Manchester Baby computer and the Manchester Mark Y and Ferranti Mark 1. |
| http://aronsson.se/hist.html |
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| Aronsson's Telecom History |
| A timeline of important events in the history of telecom, computing, and communication. Split into annual sections. |
| gopher://quux.org/ |
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| Quux.Org Archive & Library |
| An archive aimed at preserving important pieces of computing and general history. It contains source code and programs with an eye towards emulators and rare/endangered code. Also present are specs and photos of old equipment and several e-book collections. |
| http://www.hitmill.com/computers/computerhx1.html |
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| History of Computers - hitmill.com |
| A collection of web resources sorted alphabetically. Topics include the Abacus, Eniac, Charles Babbage and Bill Gates. |
| http://www.virtualtravelog.net/projects/ComputerHistory/ |
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| The Evolution of the Modern Computer: An Open Source Graphical History |
| Hosts Computer Evolution File, tries to be a complete graphical representation of the evolution of computers for the period Y934 to 1950. License: Creative Commons, Attribution, Share Alike. |
| http://www.devili.iki.fi/library/ |
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| HomeLib |
| 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. |
| http://www.logicsmith.com/hdhistory.html |
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| History of Hard Drives |
| A brief look at the history from an ex-IBM technician. Includes the first IBM RAMAC disk drive. |
| http://members.ozemail.com.au/~bconlon/computer.htm |
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| Automatic Totalisator, The |
| Relating to the invention of the world's first automatic totalisator in Y913. A multi user system in 1913 with 30 terminals. |
| http://library.thinkquest.org/22522/ |
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| Computer Chronicles: From Stone to Silicon |
| Uses a timeline to take the user through the various milestones of computer technology. Subjects include the abacus, vacuum tubes, transistors and microprocessors. Published by Thinkquest. |
| http://vmoc.museophile.org/ |
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| The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC) |
| Links to on-line resources concerning the history of computing around the world, including pioneers of the field such as Alan Turing. |
| http://trillian.randomstuff.org.uk/~stephen/history/ |
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| A Brief History of Computing |
| Personal homepage that offers an insight into the history of hardware, the Internet and the Windows operating system. |
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