Historical Resources
Displaying 1 – 48 of 87 Resources (Type: Personal Collection)
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 Science Association
American Computer Science Association (ACSA), a charitable research foundation dedicated to improving technology understanding and computer science education.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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 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 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 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…
Computer-Archiv
Computer-Archiv, a German-language resource documenting historic computers and computing technology with detailed technical information and photographs.
ComputerMuseum–Muenchen
ComputerMuseum Munchen (Munich Computer Museum) preserving and exhibiting vintage computing equipment from German and international computing history.
CPU Shack Museum
CPU Shack Museum is an online museum documenting the history of microprocessors, with a collection of over 20,000 CPUs from more than 150 manufacturers plus a large EPROM collection. The site…
Cray-History.net
Cray-History.net is a hobbyist-run archive documenting the history of Cray Research supercomputers, from the Cray-1 through the T3E and beyond, including machine family specifications, photos,…
Dan Bricklin's Website
Dan Bricklin's personal website documenting the history of VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet, along with the companies he founded (Software Arts, Software Garden, Slate Corporation, Trellix…
Dan's Antique Computer Collection
A personal website by Dan Mathias showcasing his private collection of vintage computers, processors, and computing memorabilia, including systems like the IMSAI 8080, Intel Paragon supercomputer,…
Dartmouth Time Sharing System
A volunteer-run project by 'friends of DTSS' to recreate and emulate the original Dartmouth Time-Sharing System (Phase I, 1964-1967), which ran BASIC and Algol on GE-235/DN-30 hardware. The site…
Datamath Calculator Museum
Datamath Calculator Museum is a hobbyist website cataloging every calculator manufactured or sold by Texas Instruments since 1972, featuring photos and technical and historical information on each…
Domestic Electronic Digital Computing
This page presents an on-line, searchable transcription by Ed Thelen of Martin H. Weik's 1964 Ballistic Research Laboratories report 'A Fourth Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems,…
Email History
Email History resource tracing the evolution of electronic messaging from 1800s telegraph systems through the development of ARPANET-era electronic mail.
Emidec 1100
This website is a personal nostalgic recollection by a former member of EMI Computing Services Division who worked on the Emidec 1100 computer (later badged as the ICT 1101) in the late 1960s. It…
Eniac Museum
ENIAC Museum online resource dedicated to the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, built at the University of Pennsylvania.
Global Networking Timeline
Tracing milestones from 30,000 BCE through 2010, this timeline of Information Exchange Technology by T. Matthew Ciolek includes computing, networking, and communications.
Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present
"Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present" is a long-running text document by John Bayko cataloguing notable microprocessor designs and architectures from the Intel 4004 onward, focusing on…
Handheld and Portable Computer Club
HPCC is a voluntary, independent user group for enthusiasts of handheld and portable computers and calculators, particularly Hewlett Packard models, run entirely by and for its members without…
Hewlett-Packard History Links
This page, run by the independent HP Alumni Association, curates links to books, articles, and websites on Hewlett-Packard's corporate history, culture, founders, product lines, and acquisitions…
History of SPARC systems 1987 to 2010
History of SPARC systems from 1987 to 2010, documenting Sun Microsystems' SPARC processor architecture and the workstations and servers that used it.
Hobbes' Internet Timeline 10.1
Hobbes' Internet Timeline is a detailed, year-by-year chronology of the Internet's development compiled by Robert H. Zakon, tracing events from the 1957 launch of Sputnik and the creation of ARPA…
Home Computer Museum
Home Computer Museum (HCM), a German-language resource documenting the history of home computers from the late 1970s through the early 1990s.
Home of SADIE, SUSIE and the Molecular 18
A personal enthusiast website documenting the history of BCL (Business Computers Ltd) and its Molecular 18 minicomputer, covering the company's origins, hardware, firmware, operating systems, and…