Historical Resources
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Obsolete Computer Museum
Obsolete Computer Museum featuring a curated list of vintage and discontinued computers with photographs and basic specifications.
Obsolete Technology Website
OldComputers.net, an encyclopedic reference site cataloging vintage personal computers and home computers from the 1970s and 1980s with photos and specs.
Old Calculator Web Museum
Old Calculator Web Museum showcasing a collection of vintage electronic calculators with detailed photos, specifications, and historical context.
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 featuring a collection of vintage PCs and home computers with photographs, specifications, and historical notes.
Online Museum and Technical History of Hewlett-Packard (now Agilent Technologies)
Kenneth Kuhn's online HP Museum documenting Hewlett-Packard test and measurement equipment, calculators, and computing products with technical history.
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 resource documenting the PLATO computer-based education system, a pioneering platform that introduced many concepts later found in the modern Internet.
Progopedia, the Free Encyclopedia of Programming Languages
Progopedia, a free encyclopedia of programming languages with descriptions, history, examples, and comparisons across hundreds of languages.
Programming Languages
Susan Sherwood's programming languages compendium at the University of York, cataloging languages with historical context and key characteristics.
Programming Languages & Compilers
SAL (Encyclopaedia of Scientific and Analytical Software) at Moscow State University, cataloging programming languages and scientific computing software.
Retro Calculators
Online museum of mechanical calculators featuring photos, videos, and information on abacuses, slide rules, and early calculating instruments from around the world.
Retro Computer Museum
Retro Computer Museum in Leicestershire, UK - a hands-on museum where visitors can play with and experience vintage computers and gaming systems.
Russian translation of Elements of Programming
Dusty Decks - Paul McJones's resource on the history of programming languages and software engineering, with links to primary sources and documentation.
Russian Virtual Computer Museum
Russian Virtual Computer Museum, a comprehensive online museum documenting the history of computing in Russia and the Soviet Union with extensive virtual exhibits.
S-1 Supercomputer (1975-1988)
Mark Smotherman's historical overview of the Stretch/IBM 7030 supercomputer at Clemson University, documenting one of IBM's most ambitious early computing projects.
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 History of Computing reference site with curated links and information about key developments in computing history.
Society for the History of Technology
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) website, the leading international scholarly organization for historians of technology.
Solaris History
Softpanorama resource on the history of Solaris and Sun Microsystems' Unix operating system, covering its evolution from SunOS through the Oracle acquisition era.
Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation
Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation (SMECC) in Arizona, preserving computing and telecommunications artifacts with hands-on exhibits.
Soviet Digital Electronics Museum
Museum of Computer and Information Technology in St. Petersburg, Russia, featuring virtual exhibits of Soviet and Russian computing equipment.
Stanford and Silicon Valley Archives Project
Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources, providing access to significant Silicon Valley and technology history archives and collections.
Supercomputing Technology Historical Museum
Supercomputing Technology Historical Museum documenting the history of supercomputing systems from early vector processors through parallel architectures.
Swarthmore College Computer Society
Swarthmore College Computer Society (SCCS) providing computing resources and documenting the history of computing at Swarthmore College.
Technical History of Acorn Computers
Technical history of Acorn Computers by Chris McMoredie, documenting the British company that created the BBC Micro, Archimedes, and the ARM processor architecture.
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, a chronological catalog of significant computers and computing milestones from mechanical calculators through the PC era.
Timeline: History of Visual Effects VFX, Computer Graphics, CGI, Computer Animation
Visual effects and computer graphics timeline by Barbara Flueckiger (Zauberklang), cataloging the history of VFX, CGI, and computer animation techniques in film.
VAX Archive, Welcome to
VAX Archive, a resource dedicated to preserving documentation and information about Digital Equipment Corporation's VAX computer systems and VMS operating system.
Videocard Virtual Museum
VGA Museum, a Russian-language online museum dedicated to the history of video graphics adapters and GPU technology with photos and specifications.
Vintage Calculators Web Museum
Vintage Calculators Web Museum, showcasing a collection of mechanical and electronic calculators with detailed photographs and historical information.
Vintage Computers, List of
Vintage-Computer.com, a community resource listing and cataloging vintage computers, terminals, and peripherals from various manufacturers.
Workbench Nostalgia
Greg Donner's Workbench resource documenting the history and community of the Amiga computer platform and its Workbench operating system.
World of Historic Computers
Robotrontechnik.de, a comprehensive German-language resource documenting computers and technology produced in the former East Germany (GDR/DDR).
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.