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Chac is a nonprofit corporation, who safeguards and organizes the history of electronic computing, not only in California, but nationally and internationally. They collect and archive hardware, software and documents.
http://www.chac.org/
Site is dedicated to the first home computer that could be bought in the UK.
http://www.mixtel.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
International user group for old computer enthusiasts "old computers" and/or "old enthusiasts. Dedicated to preserving older and classic computer hardware, software, and literature.
http://www.cyberstreet.com/hcs/hcs.htm
This is a site devoted to the history of the PC, covers all types of personal computers from 1970 to present.
http://www.pc-history.org/
A mixture of science fiction and fact concerning the B205.
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/B205/index.html
A physics professor tells about some of the early computers he worked with.
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/aflavell.html
The Institute was established in 1997 to excavate, preserve, research, and present interesting and historically significant computing devices.
http://www.blinkenlights.com/
Information and links to computer history.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/services/unisys-folklore/
Documentation for the SWTPC computer line.
http://www.swtpc.com/
Dedicated to computers and/or operating systems which some might describe as obsolete.
http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/
Honoring personal computing in the 1980s.
http://www.oldskool.org/shrines/
The gathering of information concerning the primary stage of origination and development of IT and computing, primarily in Russia and ex-USSR.
http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/index.htm
Information about the late Soviet mainframe computer BESM-6, the last original was dismantled in 1995.
http://www.mailcom.com/besm6/
A personal tribute to an early model PC.
http://home.online.no/~kr-lund/VGS.htm
Shows all processes involved Building a replica of the German M4 Naval Enigma.
http://www.enigma-replica.com
History on the first automatic totalizer by Sir George Julius, mechanical aids to calculation - extracts of a paper presented to the Institution of Engineers Australia in 1920.
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~bconlon/calcaids.htm
Specifications and known problems of old hardware.
http://sos-hardware.windowstothemax.com
Rescues classic microcomputers and video games from the junk heap.
http://www.computercloset.org/
Trace out the brief of what led to the invention and developments of Digital computers.
http://abhijit.bizzyguy.com/computer4.html
A page with some pictures of Honeywell-Bull mainframes and mini's (DPS-6 and DPS-7)
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ie.dun...ter/My%20Stuff/Computer_page.htm
Full details of a successful project to build a working reproduction of the 1964 prototype for the Block I Apollo Guidance Computer.
http://starfish.osfn.org/AGCreplica/
Information about the ICL 1900 series mainframes from the 1970s, both hardware and software. The George (1S, 2, 3 & 4) series operating systems, Minimop and Maximop. Programming languages and other information.
http://www.fcs.eu.com/icl1900/index.html
History of 1802-based computing and home of the TinyELF emulator for Palm OS handhelds. Documents, scans, message board.
http://homepage.mac.com/ruske/cosmacelf/
The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was developed to provide reliable real-time control for the Apollo spacecraft that carried US astronauts to the moon, 1969-1972. This site is devoted to documenting the machines, people and institutions that made this possible.
http://hrst.mit.edu/hrs/apollo/public/
Thousands of scanned classic computer documents.
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/Index.txt