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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.
- 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.
- 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 History 08 - A Yahoo! Group for those interested in computer history.
- Tales from Tesler: History of the Lisa Computer - Former Xerox PARC researcher and Apple Chief Scientist explains impact of Lisa, a computer ahead of its time, competing with DOS PCs. [G4 TV]
- Computer Industry History - Comprehensive list of links to the best computer industry history resources that can currently be found on the 'Net
- History of Computers - A directory of sites about the history of computers arranged categorically and with specific topic and general topic sections.
- American University Computing History Museum - Promotes awareness of the history of computing, supports research in the historiography of computing, provides support to teachers and houses a collection of computer artifacts. Features a virtual tour, history, syllabus, lectures, student projects and bibliography.
- A Brief History of Computing - Personal homepage that offers an insight into the history of hardware, the Internet and the Windows operating system.
- 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.
Wikipedia Articles
- Computer History Museum - The Computer History Museum is a museum established in 1996, when The Computer Museum (TCM, in Boston) sent the majority of its historical collection to Moffett Field, California, so that TCM could concentrate on computing-related exhibits for children. Thus, it was originally the West Coast division of The Computer ...
- History of computer science - The history of computer science began long before the modern discipline of computer science that emerged in the twentieth century. The progression, from mechanical inventions and mathematical theories towards the modern concepts and machines, formed a major academic field and the basis of a massive world-wide industry.
- Computer: A History of the Information Machine - Computer: A History of the Information Machine , is a 1996 book by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray. It offers an overview of the history of computing which ends with the rise of the world wide web in the mid-1990s.
- History monoid - In mathematics and computer science, a history monoid is a way of representing the histories of concurrently running computer processes as a collection of strings, each string representing the individual history of a process. The history monoid provides a set of synchronization primitives (such as locks, mutexes or thread joins) for providing rendez-vous ...
- History of computer hardware in the SFRY - The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) was a socialist country that existed in the second half of the 20th century. Being communist meant that strict technology import rules and regulations shaped the development of computer history in the country, unlike in the Western world.