Historical Resources
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National Museum of American History's (NMAH's) - Computer History Collection
Smithsonian National Museum of American History - Computer History collection, featuring landmark machines and artifacts from American computing history.
Obsolete Computer Museum
Obsolete Computer Museum is a personal website, running since 1995, that catalogs a large personal collection of vintage and discontinued computers (Apple, Commodore, IBM, Tandy, and many others)…
Obsolete Technology Website
This is Steve's personal collection of rare, vintage, and obsolete computers, presented as a website dedicated to the preservation and display of early personal computer systems. It features vintage…
Old Calculator Web Museum
The Old Calculator Web Museum is a personal project curated by Rick Bensene, showcasing his private physical collection of vintage desktop and early portable electronic calculators from the 1960s and…
Old Computer Hut
Old Computer Hut, a personal collection of vintage British and international computers with photographs and descriptions.
Old Computer Museum
Old Computer Museum is a personal website showcasing one individual's collection of vintage computers, built up from donations, garage sales, and eBay purchases. It features real, working machines…
Online Museum and Technical History of Hewlett-Packard (now Agilent Technologies)
A privately owned website run by Kenneth A. Kuhn, an amateur historian, documenting the technical history of Hewlett-Packard test equipment, calculators, and computing products, drawn from his…
Oughtred Society
Oughtred Society, an international organization dedicated to the preservation and history of slide rules and other historical calculating instruments.
Personal Computer Museum
Personal Computer Museum in Brantford, Ontario, Canada - housing one of Canada's largest collections of vintage personal computers and gaming systems.
Plato History
PLATO History is a blog run by author Brian Dear, documenting the PLATO computer-based education system developed at the University of Illinois beginning in 1960. It features posts on PLATO's history…
Progopedia, the Free Encyclopedia of Programming Languages
Progopedia is a free, wiki-style web encyclopedia of programming languages, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, edited by registered volunteer contributors. It catalogs entries for…
Programming Languages
Susan Sherwood's personal compendium of programming languages, hosted on her University of York user pages, presenting an alphabetical, informal catalogue of languages with historical notes,…
Programming Languages & Compilers
SAL (Encyclopaedia of Scientific and Analytical Software) is a catalog hosted at Moscow State University indexing programming languages, compilers, and interpreters used in scientific computing. This…
Retro Calculators
Retro Calculators is a personal website (self-described as a 'webzeum') showcasing an individual collector's holdings of mechanical calculators, adders, and slide rules, with photos and occasional…
Retro Computer Museum
Retro Computer Museum is a hands-on museum in Leicestershire, UK, displaying vintage computers and gaming systems such as the Sinclair Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari 2600, and various consoles,…
Russian translation of Elements of Programming
Dusty Decks is Paul McJones's personal research site preserving historic software and documenting the history of programming languages and software engineering, including detailed accounts of…
Russian Virtual Computer Museum
The Russian Virtual Computer Museum is an online archive documenting the history of computing in Russia and the Soviet Union, founded by Eduard Proydakov and Leonid Teplickii and maintained with…
S-1 Supercomputer (1975-1988)
Mark Smotherman's detailed historical account of the S-1 supercomputer project (1975-1988), led by Lowell Wood at Lawrence Livermore National Lab and largely designed by Stanford graduate students…
Science Museum - London
Science Museum in London, UK - one of the world's foremost science museums with landmark computing exhibits including Babbage's Difference Engine and early electronic computers.
Slide Rule Collection
Nathan Zeldes's personal website documenting his collection of slide rules and other historical calculating devices, with individual write-ups on dozens of specific artifacts (slide rules, mechanical…
Society for the History of Technology
The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) is an international learned society devoted to the study of the history of technology. It offers membership, scholarly engagement opportunities, and…
Solaris History
Solaris History is a page within the one-person Softpanorama site that compiles notes on the evolution of SunOS and Solaris, including Sun's hardware timeline (Sun-1 through later SPARC/UltraSPARC…
Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation
SMECC is a privately funded museum based in Glendale, Arizona, run by a small volunteer/archivist staff, preserving artifacts and documents related to engineering, communications, broadcasting, and…
Soviet Digital Electronics Museum
A personal website by Sergei Frolov cataloguing an extensive private collection of Soviet-era computing and electronics devices, including mechanical and electronic calculators, home computers, and…
Stanford and Silicon Valley Archives Project
The Silicon Valley Archives, housed within Stanford University Libraries' Department of Special Collections, identify, preserve, and provide access to documentary records of science, technology, and…
Supercomputing Technology Historical Museum
The Supercomputing Technology Historical Museum is a collection dedicated to preserving supercomputing technology and its history from the mid-1970s to the present, featuring machines from…
Swarthmore College Computer Society
Swarthmore College Computer Society (SCCS) is a student-run organization providing digital services—such as mailing lists, account management, a course planner, and server access—to Swarthmore…
Technical History of Acorn Computers
A personal website by Robert McMordie providing a detailed timeline and technical history of Acorn Computers, covering its hardware and software releases from the company's founding in 1978 through…
Tekniska Museet (Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology)
Tekniska Museet (National Museum of Science and Technology) in Stockholm, Sweden, with exhibits on computing, telecommunications, and Swedish technological innovation.
Time-Line Computer Archive
Time-Line Computer Archive is a collection focused on gathering, restoring, and exhibiting early computers, electronics, and associated peripherals. It also aims to document people's personal…
Timeline: History of Visual Effects VFX, Computer Graphics, CGI, Computer Animation
A detailed timeline database of the history of visual effects, computer graphics, CGI, and computer animation, compiled by Barbara Flueckiger, a film studies professor at the University of Zurich,…
VAX Archive, Welcome to
VaxArchive is a hobbyist website providing detailed technical documentation on Digital Equipment Corporation's VAX systems, including VAXstation 2000/3100 pages, Q-bus and Unibus module field guides,…
Videocard Virtual Museum
Videocard Virtual Museum is a personal collection website cataloguing video graphics adapters (GPUs) from many vendors, searchable by chip vendor, card maker, bus type, platform, and year, with…
Vintage Calculators Web Museum
Vintage Calculators Web Museum is a personal website documenting the evolution of calculators from mechanical devices to pocket electronics, featuring mechanical, early electronic desktop, and hand…
Vintage Computers, List of
This site is Erik S. Klein's personal collection of vintage personal computers, generally built before 1985 for individual or small-group use, including systems like the Kenbak-1, Mark-8, Altair 8800…
Workbench Nostalgia
Workbench Nostalgia is Greg Donner's personal website documenting the version history of AmigaOS's Workbench graphical user interface, from its first release through later beta and licensed variants.…
World of Historic Computers
Robotrontechnik.de is a German-language virtual museum documenting the history of computer technology developed in East Germany (GDR), focusing on the work of the market leader Robotron and other…
York University Computer Museum, York University
York University Computer Museum in Toronto, Canada, preserving and exhibiting significant computing artifacts with educational programs on computing history.