Alphabetical List of Programming Languages
← Back to ResourcesA 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 personal home page (home.nvg.org/~sk) rather than an official university site, it functions as an enthusiast-maintained index rather than a formal academic project.
| Resource Type | Personal Collection |
|---|---|
| Website | http://home.nvg.org/~sk/lang/lang.html |
| Access Policy | public |
| Cost | Free |
| Address | US |
Apple Museum
← Back to ResourcesEveryMac.com, established in 1996, is a reference site providing detailed specifications, configuration options, upgrade information, device identifiers, benchmarks, and global pricing for every Mac model from 1984 to present, as well as iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and other Apple devices. It offers tools to look up, compare, and sort Macs by series, year, processor, case type, and identifier, along with FAQs and historical notes. The site describes itself as handcrafted and maintained through original hands-on research and testing.
| Resource Type | Personal Collection |
|---|---|
| Website | https://everymac.com/ |
| Access Policy | public |
| Cost | Free |
| Address | US |
Hobbes' Internet Timeline 10.1
← Back to ResourcesHobbes' 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 through the ARPANET's founding nodes, protocols, and key milestones into the 2010s. The site documents technical developments (packet switching, the first RFCs, the first ARPANET nodes and email) alongside organizational and growth milestones, with sources and notes cited throughout. It functions as a long-running, individually maintained reference work rather than an institutional archive.
| Resource Type | Personal Collection, Research |
|---|---|
| Website | https://zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/ |
| Access Policy | public |
| Cost | Free |
| Address | US |
Computer History Images
← Back to ResourcesLawrence 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 the PDP-1, PDP-6, PDP-8, PDP-11, and VAX 11/780. The page also links out to other computing history resources such as the Charles Babbage Institute, Paul Pierce's Computer Collection, and J.A.N. Lee's History of Computing. It appears to be a static, unmaintained page dating from 1996.
| Resource Type | Personal Collection |
|---|---|
| Website | http://crowl.org/Lawrence/history/ |
| Access Policy | public |
| Cost | Free |
| Address | US |
Solaris History
← Back to ResourcesSolaris 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 systems), the AT&T partnership that produced SVR4, and links to related timelines, books, and newsgroups. It is written and maintained by a single enthusiast rather than an institution, drawing on sources like Wikipedia and Usenet.
| Resource Type | Personal Collection |
|---|---|
| Website | https://softpanorama.org/Solaris/solaris_history.shtml |
| Access Policy | public |
| Cost | Free |
| Address | US |
Apple ][ History
← Back to ResourcesApple 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 alongside a blog covering Apple II, Apple-1, and related topics such as magazines, KansasFest, and podcasts.
| Resource Type | Personal Collection |
|---|---|
| Website | https://www.apple2history.org/history/ |
| Access Policy | public |
| Cost | Free |
| Address | US |
Apple History Timeline
← Back to ResourcesThe 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 computers, historical essays, product and code-name lists, timelines, and an image gallery of hardware, people, and OS screenshots. The site was started in 1997 as a hobbyist reference project and is maintained by its founder, Andy F. Mesa.
| Resource Type | Personal Collection |
|---|---|
| Website | http://applemuseum.bott.org/ |
| Access Policy | public |
| Cost | Free |
| Address | US |
Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook
← Back to ResourcesThis 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 papers, scans/transcripts of original Turing documents, archives and photographs, and informal 'scrapbook' pages on topics like the Turing machine, Enigma cryptanalysis, and the Turing Test.
| Resource Type | Personal Collection |
|---|---|
| Website | https://turing.org.uk/ |
| Access Policy | public |
| Cost | Free |
| Address | GB |
Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation
← Back to ResourcesSMECC 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 computing history. Its physical location houses exhibits on topics like TTY/TDD technology, radar, telecommunications, and early computers, with limited public hours by appointment. The site hosts an extensive collection of articles, photographs, and historical documents on topics ranging from Bell Labs to Nike missile sites to early computing companies.
| Resource Type | Personal Collection, Research |
|---|---|
| Website | http://smecc.org/ |
| Physical Collection | Yes |
| Access Policy | public |
| Cost | Free |
| Address | US |
Dartmouth Time Sharing System
← Back to ResourcesA 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 hosts scanned source listings, transcribed and assembled code, emulators for Mac and Windows, manuals, and a forum for enthusiasts. It documents the hands-on effort by former participants to locate original software listings and rebuild working simulations.
| Resource Type | Personal Collection |
|---|---|
| Website | https://dtss.dartmouth.edu/ |
| Access Policy | public |
| Cost | Free |
| Address | US |