The Canny Link Directory

Calculating Machines - history, classification and pictures of mechanical calculating machines.

Chronology of Digital Computing Machines

Chronology of Events in the History of Microcomputers - Timelime of trivial and significant events in making personal computer hardware and software what it is today.

Computer History Association of California (CHAC) - studying, preserving, protecting and popularizing the history of electronic computing, while gathering the forces to build a museum.

Computer History and Folklore - Collection of documents and links relating to computer history and folklore

Computer Lore Gopher

Digital Moments - Digital Moments: photographic history of moments in the computer industry.

First Virtual Mousepad Museum - large collection of scanned images of mousepads.

Garganuan Virtual Guide to Cyber-History - This site is one of the most complete guides to the history of computing available. Explore the various Web, FTP, News and Gopher Sites available.

Guess the Computer

Habitats - are graphical online communities populated by avatars. The first habitat was developed at Lucasfilm in 1985. Examples include WorldsAway, Worlds Chat, The Palace, AlphaWorld, and V-Link.

Historic Computer Images [arl.mil]

Historic Computer Images [curie.fr] - Many pictures of DEC PDP's and VAXen. Also featuring some RX, RL and RM disks. The most famous disks with the SMD interface as the Eagle or XMD are HERE.

Historical Computer Society - and Virtual Microcomputer History Museum.

History of Computing [U. Regina] - A lecture prepared for an introductory Computer Science class about the history of computing devices, starting from the development of computing and progressing through to the late 80s. Includes nice colour slides.

History of the Computer - a report i did in eighth grade about the history of computers. Hope you like it

Home Computer Hall of Fame

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing - chronicles significant historical contributions and their impact on computing and society today.

Machine That Changed the World, The - Based on the TV series by WGBH

Mind Machine Museum - an illustrated listing of a large collection of historic computers, calculators, boards, ICs, and computer-related games.

Online Symbolics Museum - captures the history of a pioneering early workstation company. Symbolics innovations and people have shown up in many industry advances.

Past Notable Women of Computing & Mathematics

Retrocomputing Museum, The - dedicated to programs that induce sensations that hover somewhere between nostalgia and nausea -- the freaks, jokes, and fossils of computing history.

Revolutionaries, The - interview series explores the exciting, often surprising stories of Silicon Valley's innovation and inspiration.

Rice Computer, 1959-1971 - A brief narrative history of the Rice Computer, one of the last of the great homebrew dinosaurs. Interesting for its tagged architecture and variety of technologies used.

Silicon Valley History: View from Internet Valley

Software History Center

Story of Mel, The - The story of a *real* Real Programmer

System R - introduced the SQL language and also demonstrated that a relational system could provide good transaction processing performance.

Terak Museum - an early personal computer made by the Terak Corporation of Scottsdale, Arizona. It was sold from about 1979 until 1985.

Totalisator History - the first totalisator, a device for calculating bets on a race, was invented in Australia.

Triumph of the Nerds - a companion Web site for the PBS television special.

Usenet - alt.folklore.computers - Stories & anecdotes about computers (some true!).

Virtual Mousepad Museum

Virtual Museum of Computing - an eclectic collection of hyperlinks connected with the history of computing and on-line computer-based exhibits available both locally and around the world.