Tagged “computing-history”
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1969 & 70 - Bell Labs
A personal photo album from a Bell Labs data center in Oakland in 1969 and 1970, full of candid shots of the staff, main…
A woman named Steve
A profile of Dame Stephanie Steve Shirley, the computing pioneer who built a multimillion-pound software company staffed…
Abort Retry Fail
Bradford Morgan White's deeply researched essays chronicling the histories of computer companies, operating systems, and…
Amiga History Guide
A fan-maintained history site documenting the Commodore Amiga computer line, its games, and the demoscene culture that g…
Atari Mania
An extensive archive of Atari computer and console software, manuals, and box art preserving the platform's commercial h…
Augmenting Human Intellect
Douglas Engelbart's landmark 1962 report proposing computers as tools to boost human thinking, the vision behind the mou…
BBC Computer Literacy Project Archive
Archive of the 1980s BBC Computer Literacy Project, with hundreds of TV clips about early home computing plus BBC Micro…
BBS: The Documentary
The companion site to Jason Scott's documentary on bulletin board systems, with interviews and history of pre-internet o…
Bitsavers
A volunteer-run archive scanning and preserving vintage computer manuals, schematics, and documentation before the physi…
C64-Wiki
A comprehensive wiki dedicated to the Commodore 64, covering its hardware, software library, and the culture that surrou…
cat -v
A site preserving the philosophy and writings of the Unix and Plan 9 research community, including essays on software mi…
Classic Computers NZ
A New Zealand-based museum site cataloguing vintage computers and calculators with detailed photographs and technical hi…
Classic Reload
A site that runs emulated retro operating systems and games, from Windows 95 to old game consoles, directly in your brow…
Codes and Ciphers
A history site built by codebreaker Tony Sale, documenting the Enigma machine and the wartime cryptanalysis work at Blet…
Computer History Museum
The Silicon Valley museum's site with online exhibits, oral histories, and archives spanning the entire history of compu…
Computer History Wiki
The Computer History Wiki, a collaboratively edited reference documenting obscure mainframes, minicomputers, and operati…
Computers Are Bad
J. B. Crawford's newsletter of odd, deeply researched stories about computing and telecommunications history, from pneum…
Computers Cannot Make Decisions
A short essay unpacking the famous idea that a computer can never be held accountable and therefore must never make a ma…
Crypto Museum
An extraordinarily detailed online museum documenting historic cipher machines, from the Enigma to Cold War spy radios a…
Dennis Ritchie's Home Page
The preserved Bell Labs home page of the creator of C and co-creator of Unix, with his history notes, papers and anecdot…
DerampSystems
A restoration-focused archive documenting early personal computers from the mid-1970s, including detailed technical note…
Donald Knuth - The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves
A short, funny essay on how Donald Knuth paused his book series for years to build TeX, fonts and literate programming,…
Folklore.org
A collective of first-person anecdotes about the making of the original Macintosh, told by the Apple engineers who were…
Four Column ASCII
A tiny post resurfacing a four-column layout of the ASCII table that makes the structure of control codes, digits and le…
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