Historical Resources
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Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook
This website is maintained by biographer Andrew Hodges as an electronic extension of his biography Alan Turing: The Enigma. It offers a chronological life timeline, Hodges' own publications and…
All About Apple Museum
All About Apple Museum in Savona, Italy is a volunteer-run association (ODV) founded in 2002, describing itself as the world's only Apple museum with functioning, usable computers. It documents Apple…
Alphabetical List of Programming Languages
A single-page alphabetical compendium of programming languages, with brief descriptions largely excerpted from other resource pages and links to further information for each language. Hosted on a…
Altair, Virtual
The Virtual Altair Museum is a personal, curator-run website documenting the MITS Altair 8800 family and related Pertec/iCOM microperipherals from the 1970s. It offers sections on Altair history,…
American Computer Museum
The American Computer & Robotics Museum, founded in 1990 in Bozeman, Montana, is the oldest continually operating museum of its kind in the world. Its exhibits span 4,000 years of information…
American Computer Science Association
American Computer Science Association (ACSA), a charitable research foundation dedicated to improving technology understanding and computer science education.
American Sociological Association Section on Communication and Information Technologies (CITASA)
CITAMS (formerly CITASA) is the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association, a professional body for scholars studying media,…
Anthony Beckett's Unnamed PC Museum
Anthony Beckett's PC Museum featuring a personal collection of vintage personal computers with photos and technical specifications.
Antique Chip Collector's Page
Antique Chip Collector's Page is a personal website run by a hobbyist collector focused on vintage integrated circuits and microprocessors from the 1960s-80s, including well-known chips like the…
Apple Computer, History of
A personal, single-maintainer website established in 1996 that catalogs specifications, photos, and timelines for Apple hardware models including Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and iPad lines. The site…
Apple History Timeline
The Apple Museum is a personal website created by an individual enthusiast (hosted by Dr. Bott) cataloguing the history of Apple Computer's people and products. It includes an encyclopedia of Apple…
Apple Museum
EveryMac.com, established in 1996, is a reference site providing detailed specifications, configuration options, upgrade information, device identifiers, benchmarks, and global pricing for every Mac…
Apple ][ History
Apple II History is a long-running personal website chronicling the Apple II computer line, first published in 1991 and continuously updated since. It presents its content as a chapter-based history…
Archaic Computer Gallery
Archaic Computer Gallery is a personal hobbyist website featuring photographs of old computers and Amiga renderings, run by an individual also involved with Commodore and Atari user groups. The site…
Association for Computers and the Humanities
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is a professional organization focused on cultivating and strengthening the field of digital humanities, supporting scholars entering the field.…
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
The ACM History Committee is a body within the Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947 and the largest educational and scientific society for the computing profession, dedicated to…
Australian Computer Museum Society
The Australian Computer Museum Society (ACMS) is a not-for-profit charity and members society that collects, preserves, and exhibits historic computing artifacts from Australia and abroad. Run by…
Bit by Bit
Bit by Bit is an online textbook hosted on Haverford College's WordPress platform, serving as a course resource for a History of Mechanized Thought class. It presents a chronological narrative of…
Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park, the UK heritage site and museum where WWII codebreakers including Alan Turing worked to decrypt Enigma and Lorenz cipher machines.
Bolo Museum
Musée Bolo is a museum of computing, digital culture, and video games hosted by the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. It is run by the publicly recognized foundation…
Bonami Spelcomputer Museum
Bonami Spelcomputer Museum in the Netherlands, housing a collection of vintage game consoles and home computers from the 1970s through 1990s.
Brazilian Computer History Museum
Museu do Computador in Sao Paulo, Brazil - a museum dedicated to preserving and exhibiting the history of computing in Brazil and worldwide.
Brief History of Computer Operating Systems
Lecture notes from a Gordon College operating systems course (CS322) tracing the evolution of OS design from bare-machine and stacked-job batch systems through spooling and multiprogramming systems.…
Calcolatoria by Nicola Marras
Calcolatoria is Nicola Marras's personal website documenting the history of calculating instruments, from slide rules and mechanical calculators to early electronic calculators, including a free e…
Calculator Reference at Vcalc.net
The Calculator Reference is a personal website founded by the late Rick Furr in 1997, offering extensive reference material on HP, TI, and other calculators as well as an in-depth focus on the…
Calculator Software at Calculator.org
Calculator.org is a hobbyist website offering free downloadable and browser-based calculator software (Calc98) along with a database of current and past pocket calculator models, unit conversion…
California State Archives
California Digital Library finding aid for the Apple Computer Records at Stanford University, documenting Apple's corporate history from 1977-1998.
Carl Friend's Minicomputer "Museum"
A private personal collection of Carl Friend's, covering calculating devices from slide rules to microcomputers and workstations, with a particular focus on minicomputers. The site offers a museum…
Carnegie Mellon University Archives - Allen Newell Collection
A digital archive hosted by Carnegie Mellon University Libraries containing the papers of Allen Newell, a founding figure in artificial intelligence and cognitive science. The collection includes…
Carnegie Mellon University Archives - Herbert Simon Collection
This is Carnegie Mellon University's digital archive dedicated to Herbert Simon, the Nobel laureate and AI pioneer, hosted by the CMU Libraries/University Archives. It provides full-text access to…
Carnegie Mellon University's Ada Project (TAP) Past Notable Women of Computing & Mathematics website
CMU's Ada Project (TAP), celebrating women in computing with resources, biographies, and information about notable women in computer science and technology.
Centre for Computing History
The Centre for Computing History is a registered charity and hands-on museum in Cambridge, UK, dedicated to the history of computing and video games. It maintains an extensive archive (over 1,300…
Charles Babbage Institute
Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota, a research center dedicated to the history of information technology with extensive archives and oral histories.
Chip History Center
Chip History Center is a virtual museum of semiconductor and integrated circuit history built by TechInsights, drawing on its analyst library and industry network. It offers timelines, exhibits, a…
Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry and Technology
The Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry and Technology is a local museum showcasing the industrial and technological history of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Its exhibits include the Cray Research Inc.…
Chronology of Digital Computing through 1952
A plain-text chronology of digital computing machines from antiquity through 1952, originally compiled and posted to Usenet by Mark Brader and later mirrored on the web by another maintainer. It…
Cité des Sciences
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie is a large science museum in Paris, France, offering permanent and temporary exhibitions, a planetarium, and dedicated spaces for children of various ages. It is…
Collection of Rare Computers and Documents
EarlyComputers is a privately assembled collection of vintage personal and analog computers, documents, and print materials dating from the 1830s through 1981, housed near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania…
Colorado Computer Museum
Colorado Computer Museum is a small 501(c)(3) nonprofit that maintains a collection of historic computing equipment, including a Cray-2 supercomputer, much of which is kept in storage. It operates a…
Colossus its Purpose and Operation
A website created by the late Tony Sale documenting the history, science, and engineering of WWII cryptanalysis, including the Colossus computer, Enigma machine, and Lorenz cipher system at Bletchley…
Commodore, History of the
Commodore.ca is a hobbyist-run site documenting the history of Commodore Business Machines, covering the KIM-1, PET, VIC-20, C64, Plus/4, C128, and prototype machines like the Commodore 65. It offers…
Computer Cabinett Goettingen
Computermuseum der Fakultat Informatik (C-C-G) in Germany, a university computing museum preserving historic computer hardware and documentation.
Computer Collector
Computer Collector is a hobbyist site providing a searchable list of computer and calculator collections and museums, plus a document archive of high-resolution images of manuals, diagrams, and…
Computer Evolution
CSSTC (Computer Science and Telecommunications Council) e-readiness resource documenting the early history and development of computing and telecommunications.
Computer Gaming World Museum
Computer Gaming World Museum is a personal, hobbyist-run website preserving and archiving Computer Gaming World magazine and materials documenting the history of PC gaming from the 1980s onward. It…
Computer History Images
Lawrence A. Crowl's personal webpage featuring a curated set of images and brief notes on historical computers, including the Difference Engine, ENIAC, IBM SSEC and 360, and various DEC machines like…
Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum, located in Mountain View, California, is a major museum dedicated to preserving and presenting the history of computing and its impact on society. It houses extensive…
Computer History Simulation Project
SimH is an open-source project providing highly portable simulators for historically significant computer systems, including DEC PDP and VAX machines, IBM systems, Data General, HP, Honeywell, and…