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/Home/Technology/Computer Science/History of Computers exploremy : brief history of the computer Votes:0 While you're here, check out my blog . A Short History of the Computer (b.c. - 1993a.d.) by Jeremy Meyers Note: Yes, a lot of this is from Groliers Encyclopaedia. Hey, I was young. I didn't know any better. Credit where credit is due. Also, this information is only current as of the early 1990's (1993, to be exact), and no I'm not planning to add more information anytime soon. Citing This Work You are welcome to use this document as a reference in creating your own paper or research work on the subject. Please don't just copy this paper verbatim and submit it as your own work, as I put a lot of time and effort into it. Plus, it's bad karma. ? If you would like to use this work, please use this citation in your bibliography: Meyers, Jeremy, "A Short History of the Computer" [Online] Availab Read More Go to Site A Logical Coding System Applied to the ENIAC Votes:0 A Logical Coding System Applied to the ENIAC ENIAC U. S. Army A Logical Coding System Applied to the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) R. F. Clippinger Ballistic Research Laboratories Report No. 673 Project No. TB3-0007 of the Research and Development Division, Ordnance Department 29 September 1948 Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland INTRODUCTION In the Spring of 1947, J. von Neumann suggested to the author that it would be possible to run the ENIAC in a way very different from the way contemplated when it was designed; a way which had very important advantages to be discussed below. Since that time his suggestion has been worked into a finished regime by J. von Neumann, A. Goldstine, B. Bartik, R. Clippinger, and A. Gehring with contributions by A. Galbraith, J. Giese, K. Read More Go to Site A REPORT ON THE ENIAC Votes:0 A REPORT ON THE ENIAC ENIAC U. S. Army A REPORT ON THE ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) A REPORT ON THE ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) Report of Work Under Contract No. W-670-ORD-4926 Between Ordnance Department, United States Army Washington, D.C. and The University of Pennsylvania Moore School of Electrical Engineering Philadelphia, PA June 1, 1946 The Report on the ENIAC consists of five separately bound parts, as follows: ENIAC Operating Manual ENIAC Maintenance Manual Part I, Technical Description of the ENIAC Volume I (Chapters I to VI) Part I, Technical Description of the ENIAC Volume II (Chapters VII to XI) Part II, Technical Description of the ENIAC. Included with the Operating Manual and Parts I and II of the Technical Description are all Read More Go to Site Alan Turing Page Votes:0 …Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) The Enigma Man and the Machine Alan Mathison Turing was by all accounts a genius. He was educated at King's College in Cambridge, followed by a Ph.D. in logic at Princeton. His contributions to society changed the course of World War II and pioneered the age of computers. He was also a "known homosexual". Alan Turing the Mathematician In 1936 Turing published one of this century's most significant mathematical papers "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidundsproblem (the problem of decidability)". It introduced the idea of a universal machine, now known as a "Turing Machine", that could execute a series of operations on sequences of binary digits. Alan Turing the Intelligence Officer In 1939, Turing Read More Go to Site ENIAC: The Army-Sponsored Revolution Votes:0 ENIAC: The Army-Sponsored Revolution ENIAC U. S. Army ENIAC: The Army-Sponsored Revolution William T. Moye ARL Historian January 1996 Fifty years ago, the U.S. Army unveiled the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) the world's first operational, general purpose, electronic digital computer, developed at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. Of the scientific developments spurred by World War II, ENIAC ranks as one of the most influential and pervasive. The origins of BRL lie in World War I, when pioneering work was done in the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, and especially the Ballistics Branch created within the Office in 1918. In 1938, the activity, known as the Research Division at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), Maryland, was renamed th Read More Go to Site ENIAC: The Army-Sponsored Revolution Votes:0 ENIAC: The Army-Sponsored Revolution ENIAC U. S. Army ENIAC: The Army-Sponsored Revolution William T. Moye ARL Historian January 1996 Fifty years ago, the U.S. Army unveiled the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) the world's first operational, general purpose, electronic digital computer, developed at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. Of the scientific developments spurred by World War II, ENIAC ranks as one of the most influential and pervasive. The origins of BRL lie in World War I, when pioneering work was done in the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, and especially the Ballistics Branch created within the Office in 1918. In 1938, the activity, known as the Research Division at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), Maryland, was renamed th Read More Go to Site Milestone in Computing Votes:0 Milestones in the History of Computers Below is a list of famous people and computers in the history of computing. The list is divided into five categories or generations based on the type of technology used in the construction of the computers or computing devices. 0th Generation - Mechanical & Electro-mechanical Up until the outbreak of the Second World War, computing devices were mechanical or electro-mechanical. The first "known" mechanical calculator (aside from the abacus) was Wilhelm Schickard's "Calculating Clock" (1623). This device was lost early on so for many years it was believed that a calculator invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642 was the first mechanical calculator. Pascal's Pascaline could only add and subtract and although Pascal tried to market his invention, its high cost Read More Go to Site Mind Machine Museum Votes:0 Mind Machine Museum a virtual museum and gallery of vintage computers, vintage calculators, and related artifacts First in collection......the original control console for the first supercomputer, the CDC 6600....date: 1964 manufacturer: Control Data Corporation....serial number: 0002 designer: Seymour Cray....original cost of computer: $6 million Cray Research Supercomputing History Bayview Club photo of CDC 6600 C alculators, computers, and video games are all high-tech tools of the mind. Teachers may find students fascinated by early examples and willing to engage in high-tech archaeological "digs" in their local community. These artifacts, combined with their disks and cartridges, may be disassembled and analyzed, restored and displayed or operated as functioning units--an archaeologic Read More Go to Site News and Views from The Times and Sunday Times | Times Online Votes:0 Business ideas Podcast: How technology blurs the lines between home and office Navigation - link to other main sections from here Skip Navigation Idiots. Utter, unbelievable, jaw-dropping, unpardonable idiots Alice Miles News Comment Business Sport Life & Style Arts & Entertainment Our Papers Audio / Video Classifieds UK News World News Politics Weather Tech & Web News Related Reports Topics Sponsored by Where am I? Home News My Profile Offers Sitemap UK Edition Switch to Global Edition HEADLINES: Online anorexia sites shut down amid claims they glorify... England crash out of Euro 2008 after losing 2-3 to Croatia at Wembley Thousands change PIN codes over fraud fears Concern grows over the potential criminal abuse of the 25 million sets of personal details lost by HM Revenue and Customs P Read More Go to Site Steven Wozniak Votes:0 STEVEN WOZNIAK by Manish Srivastava Steve Wozniak, born 1950. Founder of Apple Computers and engineer invented one of the first computers Apple II. An industry pioneer who has been active in making computer a household word. Education: Bachelor's of Science Computer Science, University of California Berkley,1982. Bachelor's of Engineering Electrical Engineering, University of CaliforniaBerkley,1982. Professional Experience: Hewlett-Packard , Engineer,.1973-1976. Apple computers, Co-founder and vice-president of Research and development,.1976-1985. Cl9, President, 1985-1987. UNUSON, President, Present. Honors and Awards: 1985: National Medal of Technology , President of the United States. Known as the Wizard of Woz, Steve Wozniak along with Steve Jobsfounded Apple Computers Inc. and star Read More Go to Site A Brief History of Computing Votes:0 A Brief History of Computing © Copyright 1996-2005, Stephen White I have compiled this history purely out of my personal interest in the subject, and I apologise for any omissions or mistakes in the documents. If you have any suggestions, comments, corrections or additions, please e-mail me: swhite@ox.compsoc.net . I've re-organised the timelines, by splitting everything into a series of smaller timelines. There's still a bit of work to do in sorting out exactly what should be in each timeline and I've got quite a lot of updating that I want to do. Hopefully it's now much easier to find things, and people on slower connections can avoid downloading the entire timeline! The entire timeline is still available for those who want it. Timelines of computer development Links to other related sit Read More Go to Site A Chronology of Digital Computing Machines (to 1952) Votes:0 What was the first computer and who built it? It turns out that this is more a question of definition than a question of fact. The computer, as we now understand the word, was very much an evolutionary development rather than a simple invention. This article traces the sequence of the most important steps in that development, and in the earlier development of digital calculators without programmability. It may help you to decide for yourself whether you think the first computer was the ABC , the V3 (aka Z3) , the ENIAC , the SSEC , the Manchester Mark I , the EDSAC , or perhaps yet another machine -- and how to apportion the honor of invention among John Atanasoff , Charles Babbage , Presper Eckert , John Mauchly , Alan Turing , John von Neumann , Konrad Zuse , and others. This article has Read More Go to Site A Chronology of Digital Computing Machines (to 1952) Votes:0 A Chronology of Digital Computing Machines (to 1952) Mark Brader For some time Mark Brader has maintained a chronology of digital computing machines. Resulting from a break in his Internet access, Mark is no longer posting updates regularly to Usenet; instead, I am maintaining this copy on the WWW for him. This page is based on his final posting of the chronology, but has undergone subsequent updating and minor editing (note that the document is deliberately kept in plain text, not HTML). Please note that Mark's email address has changed again, to <msb@vex.net>. This page last modified 2002-09-01. A Chronology of Digital Computing Machines (to 1952) Last posted June 25, 1997, by Mark Brader to alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc,soc.history.science with Message-ID <1997Jun25.194812.2 Read More Go to Site A history of hacking Votes:0 Hackers WE ARE HACKERS A history of hacking Florida's hacker connections Altering a Web site STREET SMARTS The bible of phreaking faithful NOT ALL FUN & GAMES Home A history of hacking Hacking has been around for more than a century. In the 1870s, several teenagers were flung off the country's brand new phone system by enraged authorities. Here's a peek at how busy hackers have been in the past 35 years. Early 1960s University facilities with huge mainframe computers, like MIT's artificial intelligence lab, become staging grounds for hackers. At first, "hacker" was a positive term for a person with a mastery of computers who could push programs beyond what they were designed to do. Early 1970s John Draper John Draper makes a long-distance call for free by blowing a precise tone i Read More Go to Site Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers Votes:0 Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers by Betty Alexandra Toole, Ed.D. Read an interview with the author, from The Gate The books | Ada's life | Misinformation and Information "Beyond stereotypes." -- Wired "Excellent and thoughtful." -- Annals of the History of Computing Toole lets Ada speak for herself through letters to colleagues, family and friends which bring Ada to life with an intimacy a biography never could. --Alice Polesky in the San Francisco Chronicle Ada Lovelace: The World's First Hacker. . . Toole did research for more than eight years, burying herself in British archives and libraries to narrate and edit this extraordinary collection of letters written by Ada Lovelace. Not only do they outline Ada's ingenuity for the sciences, but they also enlighten us on all aspects of Lady Lov Read More Go to Site Aiken summary Votes:0 " +" " + mess + " Read More Go to Site Alan Turing - Home Page Votes:0 The Alan Turing Home Page Maintained by Andrew Hodges, author of Alan Turing: the Enigma. This page is the guide to a large website dedicated to Alan Turing (1912-1954) Who was Alan Turing? Founder of computer science, mathematician, philosopher, codebreaker, strange visionary and a gay man before his time: 1912 (23 June): Birth, Paddington, London 1926-31: Sherborne School 1930: Death of friend Christopher Morcom 1931-34: Undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge University 1932-35: Quantum mechanics, probability, logic 1935: Elected fellow of King's College, Cambridge 1936: The Turing machine, computability, universal machine 1936-38: Princeton University. Ph.D. Logic, algebra, number theory 1938-39: Return to Cambridge. Introduced to German Enigma cipher machine 1939-40: The Bombe, mac Read More Go to Site Analog Computer Museum - Main Page Votes:0 Welcome to the Analog Computer Museum and History Center The museum is still under construction, but we do have some exhibits open. This museum only exists here on the web. There is no physical museum (yet). Information presented is for educational purposes only. Please address any comments or suggestions to mranalog@attbi.com IMPORTANT NOTICE - I WILL BE AWAY FROM MY COMPUTER FOR SEVERAL MONTHS AS I TRAVEL TO AROUND IN SEARCH OF A JOB. &nbsp &nbsp The above email address may also disappear soon in order to save money. &nbsp &nbsp So don't be surprised if your email is rejected or you don't get a reply. &nbsp &nbsp Once I get stettled again this notice will be removed. &nbsp &nbsp I certainly regret being out of contact, but it can not be helped. &nbsp &nbsp If you really need to contact m Read More Go to Site Antique Personal Computer Collection Votes:0 Historic Personal Computer Collection Seeing as personal computers have only existed for twenty years, one might not think of them as collectibles yet. Unfortunately, classic computers are being discarded every day by people who no longer use them. It is my intention to preserve a piece of the history of computers by saving these machines from the landfill. A while ago, I found out that I'm not the only person with this crazy hobby. I joined a Mail List dedicated to people who collect old computers. The last I heard, there were around 250 people on this list. I get as many as 100 messages on a good day! If you're interested in any of this, I encourage you to check out the ClassicCmp List Web Page. If you are in the bottom, left part of the United States, or if you're the travelling type, w Read More Go to Site BESM-6 Nostalgia Page Votes:0 BESM-6 Nostalgia Page Click here for Russian . Find all about besm at Wikiverse This page is supposed to hold all sorts of information about the late (the last original BESM-6 I knew about has been dismantled in 1995) great Soviet mainframe computer BESM-6. For indexing and search purposes I'll mention BESM-6 in Russian (????-6 in KOI-8, ????-6 in CP1251). By the way, BESM stands for "Bol'shaya (or Bystrodejstvuyushchaya) Ehlektronno-Schetnaya Mashina", that is, "Big (or High-speed) Electronic Calculating Machine". There also existed BESM-4 (with 45-bit words), and I've even seen it once; but I don't know anything else about it. Instruction Set Emulator news A sample listing BESM-6 character set NEW! Try the emulator online Trivia Interesting links Photos The source code (version 2.4 of Fe Read More Go to Site Bill Gates: Before Microsoft Votes:0 Family and Early Childhood First Computing Experience Roots of his Business Career The Birth of Microsoft Bill Gates Links Bibliography Family and Early Childhood On October 28, 1955, shortly after 9:00 p.m., William Henry Gates III was born. He was born into a family with a rich history in business, politics, and community service. His great-grandfather had been a state legislator and mayor, his grandfather was the vice president of a national bank, and his father was a prominent lawyer. [Wallace, 1992, p. 8-9] Early on in life, it was apparent that Bill Gates inherited the ambition, intelligence, and competitive spirit that had helped his progenitors rise to the top in their chosen professions. In elementary school he quickly surpassed all of his peer's abilities in nearly all subjects, Read More Go to Site Calculating Machines Votes:0 Calculating Machines If you are unable to see anything else other than this line Press here to continue (Your browser is somewhat old and does not support frames, time to upgrade (;-) Read More Go to Site Carl Friend's Computer Collection Votes:0 Carl Friend's Minicomputer "Museum" - Welcome! - Welcome to Carl Friend's computer "museum". In reality, this is a private collection covering a range of calculating machines from a slide rule to reasonably modern microcomputers and workstations; however, the "crown jewels" of my collection are the minicomputers. What's here: The museum catalogue The narrative The reference shelf The wish list The links list Other miscellany Copyright and & legal notices These pages are dedicated to my wonderful wife Diana , who allows me to pursue this endeavour. Important notice: The bulk of this site has shifted location on this server. Its new location is http://www.ultranet.com/~crfriend/museum . If applicable, please change your bookmarks. I apologise for the inconvenience. [ Museum Catalogue ] [ Car Read More Go to Site Carl Friend's Computer Collection Votes:0 Carl Friend's Minicomputer "Museum" - Welcome! - Welcome to Carl Friend's computer "museum". In reality, this is a private collection covering a range of calculating machines from slide rules to reasonably modern microcomputers and workstations; however, the "crown jewels" of my collection are the minicomputers. What's here: The museum catalogue The narrative The reference shelf The wish list The links list Other miscellany Copyright and & legal notices These pages are dedicated to my wonderful wife Diana , who allows me to pursue this endeavour. In the press: On 1999/09/28 I was the subject of a feature article in the Worcester (MA) Telegram & Gazette. [ Museum Catalogue ] [ Carl's Homepage ] Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, Carl R. Friend. All rights reserved. Webspace design by: Carb Read More Go to Site Chapter Eight: The Development of the Computer Votes:0 Chapter Eight The Development of the Computer First Generation Computers Second Generation Computers Third Generation Computers Fourth Generation Computers First Generation Computers As time progressed, people found they were using adding machines and slide rules to perform more and more extremely tedious calculations. Aiken, developed the Mark I in 1944 to ease this calculating burden. However, rather than follow the mechanical approach of the Mark I, many researchers set to work to develop electronic computers. Prior to World War II, John V. Atansoff, a professor of physics, and Clifford E. Berry, a graduate student at Iowa State College, began building an electronic computer. Unfortunately, because of the war, they were never able to complete it. In 1939, Atansoff finished the construct Read More Go to Site Chistory Votes:0 The Development of the C Language* Dennis M. Ritchie Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA   dmr@bell-labs.com ABSTRACT The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s as a system implementation language for the nascent Unix operating system. Derived from the typeless language BCPL, it evolved a type structure; created on a tiny machine as a tool to improve a meager programming environment, it has become one of the dominant languages of today. This paper studies its evolution. Introduction   NOTE: *Copyright 1993 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. This electronic reprint made available by the author as a courtesy. For further publication rights contact ACM or the author. This article was presented at Second History of Programming Languages confere Read More Go to Site Chronology of Personal Computers Votes:0 Chronology of Personal Computers NOTE: This page has been moved to: http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist/ . If your browser does not automatically take you there within a few seconds, click on the link above. Link to Ken P's home page . Read More Go to Site Chronology of Personal Computers Votes:0 Chronology of Personal Computers Copyright © 1995-2007 Ken Polsson internet e-mail: kpolsson@islandnet.com All rights reserved. Permission is granted to create web links to this site, not to copy these pages to other web sites. URL: http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist/ This document is an attempt to bring various published sources together to present a timeline about Personal Computers. This web document is a sneak peek at a book project of mine. Since 1994, I have browsed over 1000 sources for date information related to personal computers. This brief summary includes many of the essential happenings that shaped the industry. The full text contains over to 5000 entries. I have tried to keep it open-minded and unbiased, but the annoying fact is that "the winners write the history b Read More Go to Site Computer Birthplace Votes:0 Birthplace of the World's First Business Computer Birthplace of the World's First Business Computer - Article* "Saluting the Moose" (Rand and Univac) Radio broadcast Download Audio file(MP3) Note, this is a 3.3 megabyte file Remington Rand's First Computer - A Short History by W.B.Wenning Birthplace - Notes Specific to Development in Rowayton Birthplace - A Time Line by W.B.Wenning and Eric Rambusch The Computer Age Began in a Barn - The New York Times Computer pioneers April 5, 1998 - Life & Times* Computer Pioneers - The Darien News-Review* Memories of electronic dawn - The Hour* The History of Computing * Slight editing applied to correct errors of fact Visit our photo gallery! Remington Rand was a predecessor of Unisys Corporation . Return to Rowayton Website Read More Go to Site Computer Chronicles: From Stone to Silicon Votes:0 Before 1944 1944 - 1971 1972 - 1981 1981 - 1990 1990 - 1998 Memories Quotes Future Sources Welcome to Computer Chronicles: From Stone to Silicon! This page is designed to inform people young and old about how the computers that we use today came into being. The voyage starts in about 3000 BC, with the invention of the abacus in ancient China. It proceeds through the development of vacuum tubes, transistors, integrated circuits, microprocessors and countless other inventions until the computer of today. The timelines on this web page are divided into five sections, each beginning and ending with a defining event in the history of computers. The first timeline begins with the invention of the abacus in 3,000BC. The abacus was the first human-made numerical calculator. The era ends with the i Read More Go to Site Computer Chronicles: From Stone to Silicon Votes:0 Before 1944 1944 - 1971 1972 - 1981 1981 - 1990 1990 - 1998 Memories Quotes Future Sources Welcome to Computer Chronicles: From Stone to Silicon! This page is designed to inform people young and old about how the computers that we use today came into being. The voyage starts in about 3000 BC, with the invention of the abacus in ancient China. It proceeds through the development of vacuum tubes, transistors, integrated circuits, microprocessors and countless other inventions until the computer of today. The timelines on this web page are divided into five sections, each beginning and ending with a defining event in the history of computers. The first timeline begins with the invention of the abacus in 3,000BC. The abacus was the first human-made numerical calculator. The era ends with the i Read More Go to Site Computer Chronicles: From Stone to Silicon Votes:0 Before 1944 1944 - 1971 1972 - 1981 1981 - 1990 1990 - 1998 Memories Quotes Future Sources Welcome to Computer Chronicles: From Stone to Silicon! This page is designed to inform people young and old about how the computers that we use today came into being. The voyage starts in about 3000 BC, with the invention of the abacus in ancient China. It proceeds through the development of vacuum tubes, transistors, integrated circuits, microprocessors and countless other inventions until the computer of today. The timelines on this web page are divided into five sections, each beginning and ending with a defining event in the history of computers. The first timeline begins with the invention of the abacus in 3,000BC. The abacus was the first human-made numerical calculator. The era ends with the i Read More Go to Site Computer History Votes:0 The Technological Threshold The First Generation The Second Generation The Third Generation The Fourth Generation Other Chronologies: Computers in the Media Computer Games Computer-generated Special Effects Internet Evolution of the Computer: The first counting device was the abacus, originally from Asia. It worked on a place-value notion meaning that the place of a bead or rock on the apparatus determined how much it was worth. 1600s: John Napier discovers logarithms. Robert Bissaker invents the slide rule which will remain in popular use until 19??. 1642: Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician and philosopher, invents the first mechanical digital calculator using gears, called the Pascaline. Although this machine could perform addition and subtraction on whole numbers, it was too expensiv Read More Go to Site Computer History and Emulation Homepage Votes:0 Computer History This page is dedicated to the history of computing in general, and the history of personal computing in particular. Here, you will find a lot of bits and pieces of information about computers that were and are no longer. Some of them are still alive in the shape of emulators. Others are still being used by the scaterred groups of users, but are neither produced nor officially supported any longer. All of them have a great historical value though, as they provide us with a view on the beginning of the Digital Age we live in (not to mention that some of those old machines were quite more superior technologically than your present PC clone, or a Mac). Enjoy :). Prehistoric Computers [to 1952] by Mark Brader The Complete [?] List of Digital Computers by Bruce P. Watson Chronol Read More Go to Site Computer History Association of California (CHAC) Votes:0 Computer History Association of California, Palo Alto, CA, USA Top Ten Net Organizations ....news....news....news....news.... Spam Attack! A good friend of ours in the computer history community, whose privacy we wish to protect, has advised us that a Web site devoted to pornography, hot chat and so-called "multi-level marketing" has appeared under the trade name "Club Chacaltaya" and with the domain name chac.com. We assure you that, as you must realize, we have no relationship, whether commercial or personal, with this site or any of its principals. According to InterNIC, its server is located in Jersey, Channel Islands, with an administrative contact in Belgium. We are looking into the question of recourse insofar as our operations or reputation may suffer implicit damage. Meanwhile, al Read More Go to Site Computer History Association of California (CHAC) Votes:0 Computer History Association of California, Palo Alto, CA, USA Top Ten Net Organizations ....news....news....news....news.... Spam Attack! A good friend of ours in the computer history community, whose privacy we wish to protect, has advised us that a Web site devoted to pornography, hot chat and so-called "multi-level marketing" has appeared under the trade name "Club Chacaltaya" and with the domain name chac.com. We assure you that, as you must realize, we have no relationship, whether commercial or personal, with this site or any of its principals. According to InterNIC, its server is located in Jersey, Channel Islands, with an administrative contact in Belgium. We are looking into the question of recourse insofar as our operations or reputation may suffer implicit damage. Meanwhile, al Read More Go to Site Computer History Images -- Lawrence A. Crowl Votes:0 Computer History Images Charles Babbage designed the first computer, starting in 1823. Though not completed until 1990 (?), his Difference Engine worked. Ada King, Countess of Lovelace and daughter of Lord Byron, wrote programs for the Difference Engine, thus becoming the world's first programmer. The ENIAC was the first successful electronic digital computer. The Fiftieth Anniversary of ENIAC is fast approaching. The IBM SSEC is something I know nothing about. The IBM 360 was a revolutionary advance in computer system architecture, enabling a family of computers covering a wide range of price and performance. The LGP30 was built by Litton General Precision in the mid 1950's. It was implemented with vacuum tubes and drum memory. It used a Flexowriter for I/O. The instructions had three add Read More Go to Site Computer History Museum Votes:0 About Us Exhibits Collections Events Giving Search Home · Directions · Contact MON 12/10 Impact of the Commodore 64: A 25th Anniversary Celebration WED 01/23 Digital Crossroads: It's Easy Being Green IBM Model 2401 9-Track Magnetic Tape Drive, 1968 Photographer: Mark Richards Learn about the people and stories of computing The Silicon Engine Internet History Selling the Computer Revolution Visible Storage Timeline of Computer History More Exhibits ... Promotional photo of the Cray Y-MP supercomputer, 1988 Discover the Museum's many offerings Fellow Awards Core Magazine Search the Collection Past Events & Lectures Museum Overview Ivan Sutherland's Head Mounted Display, ca. 1968 Share your passion for history and technology Giving & Membership MyCHM Museum Groups Volunteer Donate an Artifact Read More Go to Site Computer History Museum Votes:0 About Us Exhibits Collections Events Giving Search Home · Directions · Contact MON 12/10 Impact of the Commodore 64: A 25th Anniversary Celebration WED 01/23 Digital Crossroads: It's Easy Being Green IBM Model 2401 9-Track Magnetic Tape Drive, 1968 Photographer: Mark Richards Learn about the people and stories of computing The Silicon Engine Internet History Selling the Computer Revolution Visible Storage Timeline of Computer History More Exhibits ... Promotional photo of the Cray Y-MP supercomputer, 1988 Discover the Museum's many offerings Fellow Awards Core Magazine Search the Collection Past Events & Lectures Museum Overview Ivan Sutherland's Head Mounted Display, ca. 1968 Share your passion for history and technology Giving & Membership MyCHM Museum Groups Volunteer Donate an Artifact Read More Go to Site CSIRAC, About Us, Public Profile, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne Votes:0 Uni Links: University Homepage About the University Students Research Community News Events Faculties A-Z Directory Library Uni Search: Melbourne School of Engineering Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering Faculties : A-Z Directory : Library Home > Public Profile > About Us > CSIRAC Public Profile About Us CSIRAC Performance statistics Chronology Design Main Store The Console Uses The Designers Music ... Photo Gallery Emulator Related Links Overview Welcome Contacting the Department ... Events ... News CSIRAC In 1947, Maston Beard and Trevor Pearcey led a research group at the Sydney-based Radiophysics Laboratory of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (now known as CSIRO ), to design and build an electronic computer. The resources they had available include Read More Go to Site Da Komputer Kidz---We bring Computers to Life! Votes:0 Welcome to D A FAMILY TREE When a new generation of computers is developed the older models are transported to Academia ( D A K i d z home planet). D A K i d z call these older models "DA Elders". As data is passed on from generation to generation, computer technology advances. D A K i d z have heard many stories about their past from DA Elders and decided it would be fun to trace their roots. They've created a "photo timeline" of 1st events in "The History of Computers" Click the " BC " Leaf to start [Meet DA Kidz] [DA Family Tree] [Kidz-N-Biz] [DA Mission] [DA Links] [Kidz Mall] Kidz Korner Navigation DA Kidz Korner DA Chat Line DA Kidz Gallery DA Music Studio DA Photo Lab DA Kreative Korner DA Kidz Poll Join DA Klub FUNdamentals Navigation FUN-DAmentals DA Read More Go to Site Department of Computer Science: Iowa State University Votes:0 Iowa State University Contact Us | Search Department of Computer Science College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Computer Science Home Introduction People Research Education Courses Outcomes Facilities Computer Science Jobs Other Info INTRODUCTION Welcome About Computer Science Our Mission Strategic Plan (PDF) The John Vincent Atanasoff Initiative Atanasoff-Berry Computer 40th ANNIVERSARY Department History Kick-off Events Future Events John Vincent Atanasoff and the Birth of the Digital Computer --> The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the world's first electronic digital computer. It was built by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University during 1937-42. It incorporated several major innovations in computing including the use of binary arithmetic, regenerat Read More Go to Site Department of Computer Science: Iowa State University Votes:0 Iowa State University Contact Us | Search Department of Computer Science College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Computer Science Home Introduction People Research Education Courses Outcomes Facilities Computer Science Jobs Other Info INTRODUCTION Welcome About Computer Science Our Mission Strategic Plan (PDF) The John Vincent Atanasoff Initiative Atanasoff-Berry Computer 40th ANNIVERSARY Department History Kick-off Events Future Events John Vincent Atanasoff and the Birth of the Digital Computer --> The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the world's first electronic digital computer. It was built by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University during 1937-42. It incorporated several major innovations in computing including the use of binary arithmetic, regenerat Read More Go to Site Early History of the HP3000 Votes:0 HP's EARLY COMPUTERS, Part Three: THE STRONGEST CASTLE: The Rise, Fall and Rise of the HP 3000 by Christopher Edler chris_edler@hotmail.com "The HP 3000 was God's gift to computing" - Hank Cureton, HP engineer[1] "Listen, lad: I built this kingdom up from nuthin'. When I started here, all of this was swamp! Other kings said it was *daft* to build a castle in a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em! It sank into the swamp. SO, I built a second one! That sank into the swamp. So I built a *third* one. That burned down, fell over, *then* sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the *strongest* castle in these islands." - Monty Python and the Holy Grail[2] THE ALPHA PROJECT The HP3000 minicomputer was the first Read More Go to Site Electronic Computers Within The Ordnance Corps, Introduction Votes:0 Electronic Computers Within The Ordnance Corps, Introduction ENIAC U. S. Army ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS WITHIN THE ORDNANCE CORPS HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH FROM 1961 Karl Kempf Historical Officer Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD November 1961 PREFACE This historical monograph covers the pioneer efforts and subsequent contributions of the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps in the field of automatic electronic computing systems during the period 1942 through 1961. No comprehensive history of electronic computers within the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps had previously been compiled and for this reason the sources for this monograph were many and varied. In general, however, these sources consisted of books (i.e., open literature), computer manuals, reports, interviews, and data prepared especially for this monograph by pe Read More Go to Site Electronic Computers Within The Ordnance Corps, Introduction Votes:0 Electronic Computers Within The Ordnance Corps, Introduction ENIAC U. S. Army ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS WITHIN THE ORDNANCE CORPS HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH FROM 1961 Karl Kempf Historical Officer Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD November 1961 PREFACE This historical monograph covers the pioneer efforts and subsequent contributions of the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps in the field of automatic electronic computing systems during the period 1942 through 1961. No comprehensive history of electronic computers within the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps had previously been compiled and for this reason the sources for this monograph were many and varied. In general, however, these sources consisted of books (i.e., open literature), computer manuals, reports, interviews, and data prepared especially for this monograph by pe Read More Go to Site eniac's 50th Anniversary: The Birth of the Information Age -- A Short History of the Second American Revolution by Dilys Winegrad and Atsushi Akera Votes:0 A Short History of the Second American Revolution by Dilys Winegrad and Atsushi Akera (1) Today, the northeast corner of the old Moore School building at the University of Pennsylvania houses a bank of advanced computing workstations maintained by the professional staff of the Computing and Educational Technology Service of Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science. There, fifty years ago, in a larger room with drab- colored walls and open rafters, stood the first general purpose electronic computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, or ENIAC. It spanned 150 feet in width with twenty banks of flashing lights indicating the results of its computations. ENIAC could add 5,000 numbers or do fourteen 10-digit multiplications in a second--dead slow by present-day standards Read More Go to Site F14A CADC Microprocessor - MP944 Votes:0 The F-14A Central Air Data Computer Microprocessor "a 20-bit, pipelined, parallel multi-microprocessor" The World's First Microprocessor Chip Set Designed and Developed 1968-1970 1973: A CPU "uses P-channel MOS and is contained in 1, 2, 3 or 4 LSI standard dual-in-line packages from 16 - 42 pins per package". Hank Smith, Microprocessor Marketing Manager, Intel Corp. IEEE 1973 WESCON Professional Program Session 11 Proceedings | Computer History Links | F14 Links | F14 Design Paper | | Wall Street Journal Article | Electronic Business Magazine Articles | A Place In History | This site describes the design work for a MOS-LSI microprocessor chip set designed starting June 1968 and completed by June 1970. This highly integrated computer chip set was designed for the US Navy F14A &quo Read More Go to Site Find reviews, top products, technology deals and more at ComputerShopper.com - Prestitial Votes:0 ComputerShopper.com will load in just a few seconds Click here to continue to ComputerShopper.com Find reviews, top products, technology deals and more at ComputerShopper.com Read More Go to Site Frame page for History of Computers Votes:0 This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them. Read More Go to Site From the U.S. Constitution to IBM Votes:0 From the U.S. Constitution to IBM The 1890 Census, Hermann Hollerith, and the origins of IBM Introduction Historically there have been two forces which have driven the development of the electronic computer. The first was the need for fast and accurate scientific computation. The second was the need for better "data processing" which coincided with the industrial revolution and the rise of government sponsored social programs. This paper is an exploration of one facet of the second force where the rise of IBM can be indirectly traced to the U.S. Constitution and the Crisis of the 1880 Census. The Census and the U.S. Constitution The U.S. Constitution mandated a census for the purpose of apportioning members to the House of Representatives. "The actual enumeration shall be made within three Read More Go to Site Full Timeline Votes:0 DATE COMPUTER HISTORY INTERNET HISTORY BUSINESS HISTORY WORLD EVENTS (for a little perspective) 3000 BC The abacus is invented in Babylonia The Tower of Babel is built Native Americans invent popcorn 80 AD The Antikythera Device , a bronze mechanical lunar month calculator, is constructed in Greece The wedding cake is invented in Rome. Instead of being eaten, it is thrown at the bride to insure fertility. 1517 Coffee, without which little progress would have been made in the computer sciences, is introduced in Europe 1600 Doughnuts are invented in Holland. They don't invent the hole until 1850 1620 Pilgrims establish a colony at Plymouth Rock. 1622 William Oughtred invents the slide rule . This first one was circular. James I is King of England, gets his very own version of the Bible . Des Read More Go to Site FUTILITY Votes:0 * All that was here is gone. * If you came in search of a joke, a wisecrack, something to while away the time, &c., try www.cruel.com . * If you were looking for Winnie-the-Pooh--I'm sorry, but I can't find a page that I can, in good conscience, recommend. Perhaps you could start at Arts > Literature > Children's Literature > Authors > Milne, A. A. . * If, on the other hand, your taste ran to quirky stories, I would recommend www.thesmokinggun.com . (Or, if you are made of stronger stuff, www.dailyrotten.com .) * For computer history there's Hobbes' Internet Timeline , Polsson's History of Microcomputers and the Jargon File . Oh, and Knuth of course. (Don't you think he looks a little like Darth Vader ?) * If you were looking for Pepys quotes and information, you may like his e Read More Go to Site Grace Murray Hopper Votes:0 Home Front Door Blog Stuff About Me Hugginisms Privacy Technology WebMastering MS Cherokee U-2 Spy Plane Humor Motivation Books Quotations Other Stuff Misc Links Ephemerae Memberships Site Awards Affiliates NSA & NSA/NT Toastmasters Webrings Snippets/Ezine Guestbook Site Map Email Me Search Cost of the War in Iraq (JavaScript Error) Click here to learn more. Grace Murray Hopper Grace Murray Hopper is not only the Mother of COBOL, not only one of the most important women in the history of computers, she is one of the most important people in the history of computers. This is her page. Portraits of Grace Murray Hopper : Portraits collected from around the net. ( hopper_portraits ) Quotes by Grace Murray Hopper : Quotations on my general quotations page by Grace Murray Hopper. ( Quotes_Genera Read More Go to Site Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century Votes:0 About Timeline The Book Welcome! How many of the 20th century's greatest engineering achievements will you use today? A car? Computer? Telephone? Explore our list of the top 20 achievements and learn how engineering shaped a century and changed the world. 1. Electrification 2. Automobile 3. Airplane 4. Water Supply and Distribution 5. Electronics 6. Radio and Television 7. Agricultural Mechanization 8. Computers 9. Telephone 10. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration 11. Highways 12. Spacecraft 13. Internet 14. Imaging 15. Household Appliances 16. Health Technologies 17. Petroleum and Petrochemical Technologies 18. Laser and Fiber Optics 19. Nuclear Technologies 20. High-performance Materials Copyright © 2007 by National Academy of Engineering. All rights reserved. Printer-Friendly Version . T Read More Go to Site History of Computers 1 Votes:0 History of Computers Dear Computer User, Computers have not always been the excellent tools we have today. They had to be invented--or you could say created. Here is a fairly extensive look into the history of computers. Enjoy. Your Computer Friend How did they evolve ? Let's take a look..... 3100 BC In Mesopotamia, tokens used for accounting and record-keeping Way back in 500 B.C. the Egyptians, and later around 800 A.D. the Chinese, used a bead and wire abacus for adding and subtracting large sums of numbers. I n 1617 A.D. Scotland's John Napier introduced a system of multiplying by adding numbers and dividing by subtracting. The system, which was called "Napier's Bones," was a mechanical numbering device made of horn, bone, or ivory. He spent most of his life trying to make ar Read More Go to Site History of Computers in Education Votes:0 Computer Questions? Click here to go to the Tech Forum History, the History of Computers, and the History of Computers in Education 1780 - Early public schools adopt the teacher/manager model with the teacher as the primary manger of instruction and assessment in a single classroom. 1946 - First vacuum tube-based computers developed; universities help in computer development effort; technology used in war effort. 1951 - Little technology used in schools, primarily TV; baby boom begins with resulting increases in class size; first-generation Univac computer delivered to the US census bureau. 1954 - General Electric is the first business to order a computer. Early rock and roll music, based on the rhythm and blues tradition, gains a little in popularity. 1955 - IBM's first commercial compute Read More Go to Site History Of Computing Votes:0 History of Computing I'm currently working on my dissertation, which, in the big picture is a look at how computerization changed the structure of American high-tech industry. I am using SHARE, the IBM scientific computing users' group, as a starting point. Here is my prospectus , which describes in some detail what I am doing. The central Web resource on the history of computing . My paper--a brief narrative (and slightly triumphalist) history--on the Rice University Computer . I apologize that the tables and sub- and superscripts are HTML 3.0; I hope your browser can cope with them. I wasn't the one who left these indispensable features out of the HTML DTD so long. I've lost interest in following the evolving Browser Wars, and so I hope they're HTML 3.2 compliant, but I haven't actually Read More Go to Site History of Computing Science: Computer History from the Past Votes:0 Contents Next Introduction Welcome to Calypso's Lecture Series for CS-100. The first (and only) lecture in the series is about the history of computing from the past to the present. This offers the student or casual browser an overview of the advances in science that made desktop computers possible starting with the invention of counting. This lecture was originally given in the fall of 1994 at the University of Regina (Regina, Canada) for 400 CS-100 students. CS-100 is an introductory course designed primarily for students from other disciplines. It was not intended for the computing science major student. As such, this material was geared to appeal to those students. The author would like to thank the copyright holders of the various pictures used in this work without formal acknowledgem Read More Go to Site Home Buying First Time Home Buyer Homes For Sale Home Loans Homes for sale by owner at Home.net Votes:0 Welcome to Home.net Home Buying First Time Home Buyer Homes For Sale Home Loans Homes for sale by owner Real Estate Brokers Interior Decorating Real Estate Foreclosures Home Remodeling Work From Home Furniture Cheap furniture | Timeshares | Modular homes | Home improvements Read More Go to Site IBM Archives: Valuable resources on IBM's history Votes:0 United States [ change ] Terms of use Home Products Services & industry solutions Support & downloads My IBM IBM Archives Exhibits Documents Multimedia Helpful links Using the Archives site Terms and conditions IBM Archives Valuable resources on IBM's history Featured exhibit Main exhibit The IBM facility in Endicott, N.Y. has roots 100 years long. You can trace those roots and learn about IBM's first factory by visiting: History of IBM is a permanent exhibit that provides a selective decade-by-decade/year-by-year overview of IBM history IBM Endicott exhibit History of IBM Overview for using the IBM Archives We can help, but please read our terms and conditions FAQ and Glossary are now available in PDF format on the documents page Information about IBM clocks in our clock corner exhibit Br Read More Go to Site IBM Archives: Valuable resources on IBM's history Votes:0 United States [ change ] Terms of use Home Products Services & industry solutions Support & downloads My IBM IBM Archives Exhibits Documents Multimedia Helpful links Using the Archives site Terms and conditions IBM Archives Valuable resources on IBM's history Featured exhibit Main exhibit The IBM facility in Endicott, N.Y. has roots 100 years long. You can trace those roots and learn about IBM's first factory by visiting: History of IBM is a permanent exhibit that provides a selective decade-by-decade/year-by-year overview of IBM history IBM Endicott exhibit History of IBM Overview for using the IBM Archives We can help, but please read our terms and conditions FAQ and Glossary are now available in PDF format on the documents page Information about IBM clocks in our clock corner exhibit Br Read More Go to Site Inventor Charles Babbage Biography Votes:0 Fascinating facts about Charles Babbage inventor of the first mechanical computing machine in 1821. Charles Babbage AT A GLANCE: Charles Babbage is often called the "father of computing" for his detailed plans for mechanical Calculating Engines, both the table-making Difference Engines (1821) and the far more ambitious Analytical Engines (1837), which were flexible and powerful, punched-card controlled general purpose calculators, embodying many features which later reappeared in the modern computer. THE STORY RELATED INFO BOOKS VIDEOS WEB SITES QUOTATIONS HOW IT WORKS DID YOU KNOW? Inventor: Charles Babbage Criteria: First to invent. Modern prototype. Birth: December 26,1791 in London, England Death: October 18,1871 in London, England Nationality: British Invention: mechanical c Read More Go to Site Jefferson Computer Museum - Terak Museum Votes:0 T HE T ERAK M USEUM IN THE SOUTH WING OF THE JEFFERSON COMPUTER MUSEUM TERAK MUSEUM - UCSD PASCAL MUSEUM - USUS LIBRARY ANCIENT ALPHABETIC ART - LIBRARY - ALTAIR AND IMSAI EMULATORS REVIVING CASSETTE DATA - DISK UTILITIES - COMPUTER RESCUE WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE What is a Terak? It is an early personal computer made by the Terak Corporation of Scottsdale, Arizona. It was sold from about 1979 until 1985. One of the first models was the Terak 8510/a shown above. It was based on the popular PDP-11/03 processor, a 16-bit CPU. The Terak 8510 could have as much as 128K of RAM with the PDP-11/23 option. For storage, it has big eight-inch floppy drives that go klunk-klunk, in IBM 3740 format, holding roughly 256K, 512K or 1 meg each. Hard disks of five to forty megs were available. The Ter Read More Go to Site John von Neumann Votes:0 John [1] Louis von Neumann Born 28 December 1903, Budapest, Hungary; Died 8 February 1957, Washington DC; Brilliant mathematician, synthesizer, and promoter of the stored program concept, whose logical design of the IAS became the prototype of most of its successors - the von Neumann Architecture. Educ: University of Budapest, 1921; University of Berlin, 1921-23; Chemical Engineering, EidgenÖssische Technische Hochschule [ETH] (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), 1923-25; Doctorate, Mathematics (with minors in experimental physics and chemistry), University of Budapest, 1926; Prof. Exp: Privatdozent, University of Berlin, 1927-30; Visiting Professor, Princeton University, 1930-53; Professor of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, 1933-57; Honors and Awards: Read More Go to Site Kevan's Computer Bits - My Computer Collection Votes:0 Home | Collection Bookmarks --> Software | Other Sites Kevan's Little Piece Of The Web... Main Sections... Home Computers Calculators Peripherals Video Games Hand Held Games Other Pages... Can You Help Other Collectors Creating These Pages My Computer Collection For the last few years I have been collecting old computers, calculators, home video games and any other related items. There are a couple of reasons I am doing this. Firstly I started using computers around the same time that many of the machines I have in my collection were being used as mainstream computers, so there is a lot of nostalgia for me here. Secondly, and possibly more importantly, I believe that if we don't do something soon about saving old computers we are going to loose a great historical era were computers were ev Read More Go to Site Konrad Zuse - Konrad Zuse Multimedia Show - Konrad Zuses Computer Votes:0 [Back to Horst Zuse] [Back to Horst Zuse-Privat] Konrad Zuse und seine Rechner Folgen Sie mir auf eine kleine Tour zu Konrad Zuses Rechnern. Konrad Zuse and His Computers Follow me on a short guided tour of Konrad Zuse's computers. Konrad Zuse Multimeda Show, Version 2005 Mehr Über Konrad Zuse, sein Leben und seine Rechner erfahren Sie in Horst Zuses Konrad Zuse Multimedia Show . New! Konrad Zuse Multimedia Show, Version 2005 You will find much more on Konrad Zuse, his life and his computers in Horst Zuse's Konrad Zuse Multimedia Show . Die Geschichte der Computer im WWW New! Horst Zuse hat außerdem einige interessante Links zur history of computing gesammelt. Die meisten Informationen liegen allerdings auf Englisch vor. History of Computing on the Web New! Horst Zuse has also collected a Read More Go to Site Lisp History Votes:0 Lisp History This is a HTML set concerning Lisp history The following material is available: A paper on the early history of Lisp A paper on the influence of McCarthy to Lisp LISP People LISP Enterprises A LISP bibliography Lisp museum: searchable biography The LISP-Tapes of the Pdp-1 LISP If you have additions or proposals, please mail to: hstoyan@informatik.uni-erlangen.de Read More Go to Site Macintosh Museum Votes:0 128k | 512k and 512ke | classic | classic ii | color classic | color classic ii | plus | se | se/30 II | IIci | IIcx | IIfx | IIsi | IIvi | IIvx | IIx lc | lc II | lc III/25 | lc III/33 | lc 475 | lc 520 | lc 550 | lc 575 | lc 580 | lc 630 | lc 630dos 100 | 140 | 145 | 145b | 150 | 160 | 165 | 165c | 170 | 180 | 180c | 190 | 190cs | 520 | 520c | 540 | 540c | 550c duo 210 | duo 230 | duo 2300c | duo 250 | duo 270c | duo 280 | duo 280c | 1400c/117 | 1400c/133 | 1400cs | 3400c/180 | 3400c/200 | 3400c/240 | 5300 | 5300c | 5300ce | 5300cs | portable centris 610 | centris 650 | centris 660av | quadra 605 | quadra 610 | quadra 610 dos | quadra 630 | quadra 650 | quadra 660av | quadra 700 | quadra 800 dos | quadra 840av | quadra 900 | quadra 950 200 | 275 | 400 | 405 | 410 | 430 | 450 | 460 | 466 Read More Go to Site MacTutor History of Mathematics Votes:0 The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive Biographies Index History Topics Index Additional material index Famous curves index Mathematicians of the day Search the archive Help FAQ Contact us Recent changes to the archive (Up to SEPTEMBER 2007 ) There are 36 new biographies and 1 updated biography. There are 2 new History Topics and 2 new entries in the Honours, medals, etc. category There are 106 new entries in the Additional Material category Other indexes . . . Birthplace Maps index Anniversaries for the year Chronology index Time lines index Quotations index Mathematical Societies index Medals, honours, etc. index Glossary index Poster index St Andrews Colloquium index Index of female mathematicians Mathematical Education index Student projects index Index of Famous Curves with a Jav Read More Go to Site main.html Votes:0 Did you Know...... ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Reload your browser to see another fact! HISTORY OF COMPUTERS ALL ABOUT E-MAIL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET AND OUR FAVORITE BOOKMARKS COMPUTER GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY Doing something for the first time might get a little scary, like riding a bike with no training wheels. The first time you try to ride with no training wheels you fall and get scared. 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Ich habe auch einige andere Maschinen, wie ein paar Atari? VCS ?2600 , einen Tangerine Oric-1 und einen Digital MicroVAX II . Programme cbmconvert Das Programm konvertiert Dateien von 8-Bit Commodore -Rechnern zwischen verschiedenen Formaten. Ich habe es entwickelt, um den Co Read More Go to Site Multics Votes:0 Recent Changes 11/22 Multicians : Added entry for Tim Myers. 11/21 Multicians : Updated entry for Les Gotch. 11/20 Multicians : Updated entry for Richard Lehman. Multicians : Added entry for Peter Gilbert. 11/19 Multicians : Added entry for David Mery. 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This tour arrow, and the title bar tour arrow on each page, will take you on a guided tour through the major parts of this site, including all Soviet manufactured machines. The tour does not include external links, articles, or non-Soviet machines. Be sure to read all the articles listed in the article index , too! Mandy This is Virtual Mandy. She is interactive, and was created with the tools I have been helping develop for the last 5 years. 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Poll Shows Support for Strong Fuel Efficiency Standards Seen as Vital to National Security The Pew Campaign for Fuel Efficiency held a press briefing on November 9th to discuss the findings of a ne Read More Go to Site OCM: Home Votes:0 OCM: Obsolete Computer Museum Home :: Recently Added Links Updated Categories Texas Instruments (TI) Apple ][ Make and Model Apple Apple Macintosh 128K General Obsolete Computers Commodore 64 Amstrad PPC640D Commodore VIC-20 Commodore Top Level Categories General Obsolete Computers Make and Model Operating System Processor / Platform What's going on? The Museum is changing! Read the FAQ for complete information. (It's over there on the right.) Toni Westbrook's Shredz64 Project! (via freedomirc.net) This site details connecting a Guitar Hero controller to a C64. The idea is to eventually write a Guitar Hero-type game for the C64. Submitted: February 22, 2007 Similar Sites: Commodore 64 PC USB to 1541 (via www.harbaum.org) In the old days, people hooked Commodore 1541 floppy drives to their Read More Go to Site Ollo Advertising Search Engine Free Listings Web Directory Votes:0 What Where Price Advertising Anything Anywhere! Site Map | Advertise on Ollo ©2007 Ollo - son of Apollo Read More Go to Site Operating Systems Through Time (8-bits) Votes:0 8-Bit Operating Systems This was originally printed in the last issue of Link Magazine , and is reprinted here, with updates, by the author. I finally got off my duff and incorporated all the mail people have been sending me. A few more changes are yet to be made; keep that mail coming. Please do note that, as my consciousness of computer history expands, the title is becoming increasingly inaccurate. For example, I mention nothing of mainframe or minicomputer OSes (mostly due to ignorance) and so I should probably call this " Home Computer Operating Systems Through Time" even though not all of these OSes are purely home computer machines, particularly CP/M. The title is left for historical reasons, though. New changes were last made September 2003. If you have more information about these Read More Go to Site Pascal summary Votes:0 " +" " + mess + " Read More Go to Site PC History Votes:0 PC History This site, which documents the history of pre-IBM PCs, is a tribute to the work of Stan Veit, a pioneer of personal computing. The core of the site, everything apart from the timeline pages below, was created by Stan between 1999 and 2002. It is now being preserved, for the enjoyment of future generations. Timeline Pages PC-History.Org is the centerpiece of a growing hub of historical information on computing related topics. These gradually will be added to over time. For your enjoyment, we are pleased to bring you the history of.... The PC Virus Computer Forensics ISO 17799 ITIL Cobit Pre-IBM PC Computers. MITS ALTAIR 8800-The start of it all The MITS Altair was the first 8080 based kit microcomputer. It was first introduced in the January, 1975 issue of Popular Electronics mag Read More Go to Site Penn Special Collections-Mauchly Exhibition Introduction Votes:0 John W. Mauchly and the Development of the ENIAC Computer An Exhibition in the Department of Special Collections Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania by Asaf Goldschmidt and Atsushi Akera Department of History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania Introduction The year 1996 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the ENIAC computer, the first large-scale general-purpose electronic computer. Built at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering, ENIAC is an acronym for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer," but its birth lay in World War II as a classified military project known only as Project PX. The ENIAC is important historically, because it laid the foundations for the modern electronic computing industry. More than any other machine, Read More Go to Site SAN DIEGO COMPUTER MUSEUM Votes:0 Welcome Search formerly: Now Available THE MUSEUM HAS CLOSED. The entire San Diego Computer Museum holdings and collections have been gifted to San Diego State University Library . This arrangement represents our best hopes to not only preserve these rare and valuable historical resources, but will also allow the public to continue to enjoy them in a proper and appropriate setting. We hope that this gift will allow the work and aspirations of many people over the past twenty-three years to live on in the spirit of our original mission - to preserve and display computing history for the enjoyment and education of all. To many of you who have volunteered, worked for and supported the Computer Museum of America and the San Diego Computer Museum we express our greatest admiration and heartfelt Read More Go to Site Silicon Valley to Internet Valley Votes:0 --> NetValley | Internet preHistory | Web as a "Side Effect" --> Hypertext | Internet Statistics | "Side Effect" About Us | Sweden Mirror Search buy.com Search Computers Search Software Search Books Search Magazines Search Videos Search DVDs Search Games Search Music Search Electronics Search Wireless Search Clearance --> Industry Leaders --> Discount Subscription Up to 80 % off C/C++ Users Journal A magazine designed to make you a better C and C++ programmer. Computer Shopper Computer Shopper is filled with information for anyone who wants to buy anything computer related Dr. Dobb's Journal This leading magazine for software developers will keep you up to date and discuss current issues. Home Automation An innovative magazine perfect for computer geeks and do-it-yourselfers. Intelligent E Read More Go to Site Smart Computing Article - A Journey Through The History Of Computers Votes:0 Subscribe Today | Contact Us | Register Now Home | Tech Support | Q&A Board | Article Search | Subscribe & Shop A Journey Through The History Of Computers Timeline December 1998 • Vol.2 Issue 4 A Journey Through The History Of Computers The invention of computers began before the discovery of electricity. Thousands of years ago, people started seeking easier ways to add and subtract. Though counting with beads may seem a long way from the World Wide Web, the ideas of these first inventors helped foster the technology that has led the computer industry to where it is today. In the following timeline, we'll trace that evolution, highlighting major discoveries and events along the way. If you want more information about some of the people listed in this timeline, see "Who's Who In The Co Read More Go to Site STEVE JOBS Votes:0 Steve Paul Jobs Born 1955 Los Altos CA; Evangelic bad boy who, with Steve Wozniak, co-founded Apple Computer Corporation and became a multimillionaire before the age of 30. Subsequently started the NeXT Corporation to provide an educational system at a reasonable price, but found that software was a better seller than hardware. Educ: Ungraduated, Physics, literature, and poetry, Reed College, OR; Prof. Exp: Atari Corporation; Apple Corporation; NeXT Corporation. Going to work for Atari after leaving Reed College, Jobs renewed his friendship with Steve Wozniak. The two designed computer games for Atari and a telephone "blue box", getting much of their impetus from the Homebrew Computer Club. Beginning work in the Job's family garage they managed to make their first "killing&q Read More Go to Site STIM - MouseSite Votes:0 WELCOME to the MouseSite, a resource for exploring the history of human computer interaction beginning with the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart and his colleagues at Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s. As a graduate student in electrical engineering at UC Berkeley after World War II Doug Engelbart began to imagine ways in which all sorts of information could be displayed on the screens of cathode ray tubes like the ones he had used as a radar technician during the war, and he dreamed of "flying" through a variety of information spaces. For two years beginning in 1959 at SRI in Menlo Park, Engelbart was provided the opportunity to pursue his visionary ideas further into the formulation of a theoretical framework for the co-evolution of human skills, knowledge, and organ Read More Go to Site Thank you for visiting Atari Explorer Votes:0 Thank you for visiting The Atari Time Machine We have moved and the site is now called... Please update your bookmarks - click the logo to continue! Read More Go to Site The Abacus: Index Votes:0 Selected by Scientific American as a winner of the 2003 Sci/Tech Web Awards. Contents Introduction Construction · Basics · Java Applet · Technique · The Abacus Today History Timeline · Salamis Tablet · Counting Board · Roman Hand Abacus · Suan Pan · Soroban · Schoty · Nepohualtzitzin · Khipu · Lee Abacus Interactive Abacus Tutor Sarat Chandran and David A. Bagley's incredible Java abacus with a built-in tutor for counting, addition and subtraction. Calculations Addition · Subtraction · Multiplication & Division · Square Roots · Cube Roots The Lee Abacus The manual for the Lee Abacus, c. 1958 is available as Text · Images The Abacus as Art Michael Mode builds exotic abaci as art objects. Abacus: Mystery of the Bead Abacus Techniques by Totton Heffelfinger & Gary Flom. Articles, Excerpts and Read More Go to Site The Analytical Engine Votes:0 The First Computer Introduction Seldom, if ever, in the history of technology has so long an interval separated the invention of a device and its realisation in hardware as that which elapsed between Charles Babbage's description, in 1837, of the Analytical Engine , a mechanical digital computer which, viewed with the benefit of a century and a half's hindsight, anticipated virtually every aspect of present-day computers. Charles Babbage (1792–1871) was an eminent figure in his day, elected Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in 1828 (the same Chair held by Newton and, in our days, Stephen Hawking); he resigned this professorship in 1839 to devote his full attention to the Analytical Engine. Babbage was a Fellow of the Royal Society and co-founder of the British Associatio Read More Go to Site The Apple Museum Votes:0 Introduction Encyclopedia Timelines Apple History Apple Products Lists Apple Code Names Mac Sightings Celebrity Mac Users Image Gallery Articles A History of the GUI The Early Mac OS The PowerPC Triumph Great Apple Ads Feedback E-mail Author Sign Guestbook Awards - Mentions Site Format Frames Tables Text Only Note: I am currently working on international versions of this site to accomodate the large amount of readers outside the United States. If you are fluent in a language other than English, and would like to help me translate this site into that language, please E-mail me at your earliest convenience. Thank you. This site is kindly hosted by Dr. Bott . Hello there, welcome to The Apple Museum, a site dedicated to cataloguing the history of Apple computer's people and products. The idea Read More Go to Site The Autodesk File Votes:0 The Autodesk File Bits of History, Words of Experience Edited by John Walker Fourth Edition, 1994 The Autodesk File chronicles the history of Autodesk, Inc. and its principal product, AutoCAD, through contemporary documents edited and annotated by Autodesk founder and former CEO John Walker . The book traces the company from the first glimmer of an idea in the minds of the founders, through start-up, initial public stock offering, and growth from a loose confederation of moonlighting individuals to a leader in the industry of computer aided design. The book is available in several different editions, suited for on- or off-line reading with various tools. Click on the titles of the section describing the edition you select to view it or download to your computer. Web Edition with Frames If Read More Go to Site The Babbage Pages: Homepage Votes:0 Welcome to The Babbage Pages Babbage, Charles (1791-1871) Reformer militant, mathematician, computer pioneer, economist, mechanical engineer, code-breaker, inventor, society figure, etc. etc. These pages give an introduction to Babbage`s life and work, and current research on Babbage. Biography Family Devonshire Background Friends Ada Lovelace Calculating Engines Political Economy Publications by Babbage Papers on Babbage Babbage at the Science Museum Research sources University of Exeter homesite for The Babbage Pages Department of Computer Science home department It is intended that they should be gradually expanded as work proceeds. Please contact Anthony Hyman R.A.Hyman@ex.ac.uk , with any comment, additional material, etc.. Disclaimer | |U of E|home | Copyright Original design & const Read More Go to Site The Computer History's Story Votes:0 Home Viruses Computers The Internet Ethics Pt.1 Ethics Pt.2 How Computers Work History Pt.1 History Pt2 The Computer Daily News ©1998 Alton C. Crews Middle School Spring Issue 1998 Volume 1 No. 1 The Computer Emerges! Computer Breakthrough has caught many by surprise. Many ask what is next? by Roderick Hames E arly Start C omputers have been around for quite a few years. Some of your parents were probably around in 1951 when the first computer was bought by a business firm. Computers have changed so rapidly many people can not keep up with changes. O ne newspaper tried to relate how the fast changes in computer technology would look to a similar pace in the auto industry: "Had the automobile developed at a pace (equal) to that of the computer during the past twenty years, today a Rolls Roy Read More Go to Site The ENIAC Museum Online Votes:0 Links Link Link Link Link Link --> Welcome to the ENIAC Museum Online Celebrating 60 Years of Computing 1946-2006 Happy Birthday, ENIAC! This year marks 60 years since ENIAC launched the world into the Computing Age. Today, it is difficult to imagine how we could manage without the myriad electronic devices that we utilize each day. From our cell phones, PDAs, and cameras to our automobiles, airplanes, medical equipment and devices, electronics is the engine driving us forward. And it was here at the University of Pennsylvania that it all began. The School of Engineering and Applied Science is proud to have four of the original 40 panels of the ENIAC. The artifacts on display represent approximately 1/10th of its original size. It was announced on February 14th, 1946. To celebrate ENIACs b Read More Go to Site The ENIAC Story Votes:0 The ENIAC Story ENIAC World Wide Web The ENIAC Story The world's first electronic digital computer was developed by Army Ordnance to compute World War II ballistic firing tables. By Martin H. Weik, 1961 Ordnance Ballistic Research Laboratories, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD "...With the advent of everyday use of elaborate calculations, speed has become paramount to such a high degree that there is no machine on the market today capable of satisfying the full demand of modern computational methods. The most advanced machines have greatly reduced the time required for arriving at solutions to problems which might have required months or days by older procedures. This advance, however, is not adequate for many problems encountered in modern scientific work and the present invention is intended Read More Go to Site The Final &quote;Garage&quote; sale... Votes:0 28 May, 2003 ... and then one day you wake up, and things are just not the same anymore... And so it is with the 'Computer Garage'... As of today, I am with great regret announcing the dissolution of the major part of the Computer Garage collection of classic computers and related materials. First; I will detail the method in which this will be done, and then I will detail the reasons and events that have lead up to this decision. If you are seeking the usual &quote;Computer Garage&quote; collection pages: Enter the Computer Garage virtual museum If you are seeking the catalog page of items being offered: View the Computer Garage catalog pages -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dissollution and redistribution: With the exception of between Read More Go to Site The History Of Computers During My Lifetime Votes:0 The History Of Computers During My Lifetime by Jason Patterson ( jason@pattosoft.com.au ) In this document I take a quick look at the great moments in the history of computers during my lifetime. Over time it should hopefully build up to become a fascinating look back into history. In fact it is already quite interesting, even though I'm still a youngster! PS: If you think I've missed something, or you find a mistake, please email me... PPS: All the prices are in US dollars. The 1970's From the world's first general purpose microprocessor to the Apple II, Commodore PET and TRS-80. UNIX, the C programming language, the VAX and the Cray 1 at the high end. The 1980's The Commodore 64, the IBM PC, the Apple Macintosh and the Commodore Amiga. Graphical user interfaces and the birth of multimedi Read More Go to Site THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING Votes:0 "Who controls the past commands the future. Who commands the future conquers the past." - George Orwell This collection of materials relating to the history of computing isprovided courtesy of the Department of ComputerScience at Virginia Tech , and is sponsoredin part by a grant from the National ScienceFoundation ( CDA-9312611 ). This site has been chosen by " Edu-Activ ", an educational resource site based in Germany. For other awards click here . The Computer Museum is moving into its new home, a 120,000 square foot facility in the heart of Silicon Valley The Computer History Museum's new home is a two-story, 119,000 square foot architecturally distinctive structure, designed and developed in 1994. It is located on 7.5 acres of land in the heart of Silicon Valley at the intersectio Read More Go to Site THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING Votes:0 "Who controls the past commands the future. Who commands the future conquers the past." - George Orwell This collection of materials relating to the history of computing isprovided courtesy of the Department of ComputerScience at Virginia Tech , and is sponsoredin part by a grant from the National ScienceFoundation ( CDA-9312611 ). This site has been chosen by " Edu-Activ ", an educational resource site based in Germany. For other awards click here . The Computer Museum is moving into its new home, a 120,000 square foot facility in the heart of Silicon Valley The Computer History Museum's new home is a two-story, 119,000 square foot architecturally distinctive structure, designed and developed in 1994. It is located on 7.5 acres of land in the heart of Silicon Valley at the intersectio Read More Go to Site The History of Computing at BRL Votes:0 The History of Computing at BRL ENIAC U. S. Army The History of Computing at BRL A transcript of the BRL story, as told by Mike Muuss on September 25, 1992 to the current laboratory staff and many distinguished former employees and retirees, on the occasion of "Vulnerability Day". This was a part of the celebration commemorating the incorporation of the Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), home of the ENIAC, into the new Army Research Laboratory (ARL). ---DRAFT--- This document is still being converted from an oral presentation to something really worth reading. Please forgive the rough edges. In particular, all the Figures have yet to be scanned in. This is a rather serious deficiency. There is additional information in my History of Computing Information page. The history of computing at BRL is Read More Go to Site The History of the Development of Parallel Computing Votes:0 The History of the Development of Parallel Computing ==================================================== Gregory V. Wilson gvw@cs.toronto.edu From the crooked timber of humanity No straight thing was ever made ==================================================== = * = * = * = * 1955 * = * = * = * = [1] IBM introduces the 704. Principal architect is Gene Amdahl; it is the first commercial machine with floating-point hardware, and is capable of approximately 5 kFLOPS. = * = * = * = * 1956 * = * = * = * = [2] IBM starts 7030 project (known as STRETCH) to produce supercomputer for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Its goal is to produce a machine with 100 times the performance of any available at the time. [3] LARC (Livermore Automatic Research Computer) project begins to design supercom Read More Go to Site The History of the Internet and the WWW Votes:0 Fight for your right to web standards! see. think. The History of the Net. Contents 1) Introduction 2) The Internet 2.1) How does the Internet work? 2.2) The 1960s 2.3) The 1970s 2.4) The 1980s 2.5) The 1990s 2.6) The future 3) The World Wide Web 3.1) WWW - a side effect of particle physics 3.2) The father of WWW - Tim Berners - Lee 3.3) Hyper Text Markup Language - HTML 3.4) Browsers 4) Conclusion 5) My sources 6) Disclaimer 7) Glossary 1) Introduction Welcome to a tour through the history of the Internet! I suppose you know the history of the Net already a bit, but I'm sure you don't know enough, especially if you are a beginner! This page should help you to understand the Internet a bit better. Have fun! (You can mail me any comments you have!) 2) The Internet 2.1) How does the Internet Read More Go to Site The Home Computer Hall of Fame Votes:0 Other archives Contributors What is the Home Computer Hall of Fame? It's an archive. It's a virtual museum. It's a nostalgia trip. It's somewhere where people can look wistfully at a plastic box with less processing power than a TV remote and say things like "I learned to program on one of those, they were brilliant". Basically, it's somewhere where sad people (like me) can sit and remember the good old days of home computing. Take a look at a modern home computer. Most likely it's a dull, beige box with multiple gigabytes of disc space, multiple megabytes of memory and more processing power than it knows what to do with. Now look back a few years. Hard drives were unheard of (and floppy discs were rare), 128K of memory was huge. A modern home computer has over 200 times as much memory jus Read More Go to Site The IBM 7094 and CTSS Votes:0 The IBM 7094 and CTSS Tom Van Vleck The 7094 In the mid-1960s, IBM's 7094 was one of the biggest, fastest computers available, able to add floating numbers at a speed of about 0.35 MIPS. A standard 7094 had 32K 36-bit words of memory. Its data channels could access memory and run simple channel programs to do I/O once started by the CPU, and the channels could cause a CPU interrupt when the I/O finished. They cost about $3.5 million. Paul Pierce's collection includes a real 709 and 7094. MIT got an IBM 7090, replacing the 709, in the spring of 1962, when I was a freshman, and had upgraded the 7090 to a 7094 by 1963. The 7090 and 7094 were operated in batch mode, controlled by the Fortran Monitor System (FMS) . Batch jobs on cards were transferred to tape on an auxiliary 1401 , and the moni Read More Go to Site The Machine That Changed the World Votes:0 [1] This site was chosen for a Look Smart Award in January 1997 Index Great Brains Inventing the Future The Paperback Computer The Thinking Machine The World At Your Fingertips A post-viewing Scavenger Hunt ! The following "slides" outline the major topics of presentation in each of the episodes of the video series The Machine That Changed the World which was produced by WGBH Television in Boston MA, in cooperation with the British Broadcasting Corp., with support from ACM , NSF and UNISYS . There is a book which accompanied the series that you may want to reference: Palfreman, Jon, and Doron Swade. The Dream Machine: Exploring the Computer Age , BBC Books, London, 1991, 208 pp. For more links to the history of computing pages click here . We would appreciate receiving suggestions for addi Read More Go to Site The Museum of HP Calculators Votes:0 The Museum of HP Calculators The Museum of HP Calculators displays and describes Hewlett-Packard calculators introduced from 1968 to 1986 plus a few interesting later models. There are also sections on calculating machines and slide rules as well as sections for buying and selling HP calculators, an HP timeline, collecting information and a software library. The Main Exhibit Hall Before HP Calculators (1614-1968) Calculating Machines, Slide Rules , etc.. The First HP Calculators (1968) HP 9100A&B Programmable RPN Calculators with no digital ICs High End Desktop Series (1971) HP 9810A Second Generation RPN Calculator HP 9820A Full Algebraic Desktop HP 9830A Desktop Calculator with BASIC HP 9805A Algebraic Statistics Desktop HP 9815A/S Third Generation RPN Desktop HP 9825A First HPL Calculat Read More Go to Site The Rice UniversityComputer Votes:0 A Brief History of the Rice Computer 1959-1971 Adam Thornton The Rice Institute Computer under Construction: Console typewriter, Register light Panel, and Control Unit, October 23, 1959. Photograph courtesy of Sigsby Rusk. Funding for this project has been provided by the Rice Undergraduate Scholars Program. Joel Cyprus was the faculty advisor. Contents Back to my home page. Some of the major figures in the Rice Computer Project, October 23, 1959. Photograph courtesy of Sigsby Rusk. Historical Overview Pressures and Goals There were two major purposes in designing the Rice machine. The first was to provide a platform on which members of the Rice community could do research that would have been impossibly time-consuming without access to a computer. This was, in fact, the major reason that Read More Go to Site The Role of IBM in the History of Computers Votes:0 You are here: About > Business & Finance > Inventors Inventors Business & Finance Inventors Essentials Beginners' 101 Turn Ideas Into Money Beginners' 101 Tips & Tutorials Find: A to Z Inventions Find: A to Z Inventors Timeline Topics Inventing 101 - Beginners Patent Trademark Copyright Selling Ideas Supplies Famous Inventions Famous Inventors Technology Timelines African Americans Women Inventors Robotics Robots Trivia & Quizzes Wacky Patents and Gadgets Lesson Plans, Kid Inventors Buyer's Guide Before You Buy Top Picks History of Television Before You Buy An Inventors Log Book Patent It Yourself by David Pressman Product Reviews Tools Find a Job Get a Quote Yellow Pages Forums Most Popular Articles Latest Articles Help Inventors of the Modern Computer The History of Internatio Read More Go to Site Thesis Frameset Votes:0 This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them. Read More Go to Site time-warp Archive of Vintage Technology Through the Decades Votes:0 The time-warp.org technology archive is a searchable database of vintage and modern technology items such as computers, TVs, audio and photographic equipment, and scientific gadgetry from the last century. The archive continues to grow as visitors from around the world submit their own technology items, making the visit here an educational and entertaining experience. We invite you to step into our time machine and explore the world of technology. Some things you might find are Edison phonographs, Grundig stereos, Pong games, Atari, Commodore and Tandy computers, the first Apple Lisa, Brownie cameras, Betamax video camera, 8 tracks, scientific equipment, ham radios and more. Unfortunately, however, this site was developed with frames and depends on the use of Javascript, so you must use as Read More Go to Site Timeline of IBM ACS Project -- Mark Smotherman Votes:0 Timeline of IBM ACS Project -- Mark Smotherman body{margin-left: 5%; margin-right: 5%; color: black; background: white;} hr,h1,h2,h3,h4{margin-left: -4%;} hr{margin-right: -4%;} i{color: green} em{color: red} IBM Advanced Computing Systems -- Draft Timeline Mark Smotherman. Last updated March 4, 2007 (This reflects my current understanding. I am sure there are errors. I very much appreciate corrections and new material. I also hope the style choices are helpful rather than distracting; there was beginning to be so much important contextual information that the actual ACS-related dates were being swamped.) Project Timeline (includes information about IBM in green italics to help set the context of ACS within the company) (also includes information on competitors machines in red emphasis) 19 Read More Go to Site UNIVAC Memories Votes:0 Memories This document is an ever growing collection of memorabilia, contemporary documents, and anecdotes recounting the history of UNIVAC 1100 series mainframes. The first computer I ever used was a UNIVAC 1107, and for more than a decade stretching from 1967 through 1978, most of my programming was oriented toward those machines, spanning four generations of hardware: the 1107, 1108, 1110, and 1100/80 (which I used briefly to develop microprocessor software). As the collection grows, I will organise it more coherently and make it easier to find your way around. In these early days of the archive, it's simply a collection of unrelated documents linked to the items below. Enjoy, and may minus zero never be (completely) forgotten. The UNIVAC 1107 at Case Institute of Technology In Septembe Read More Go to Site UvA Computer Museum Votes:0 Universiteit van Amsterdam / The Netherlands September 2007 The emphasis of the collection of the Computer Museum is on technical andscientific electronic computing equipment from World War II to the present day. However the collection also includes tools from the pre-computer era: mechanical, electromechanical and electronic calculators, slide rulesand tables. There are some word-processors and a small collection of home computers. Accounting machines, game computers and the like are beyond the scope of this museum. Many of the machines are in working order, equipped with original system and application software and fully documented. Using the original peripheral devices, we are able to read datafrom media like punched cards, papertape, and a variety of outdatedmagnetic storage media. Read More Go to Site Vintage Computer Festival Votes:0 Vintage Computer Festival The Vintage Computer Festival is an international event that celebrates the history of computing. The mission of the Vintage Computer Festival is to promote the preservation of "obsolete" computers by offering people a chance to experience the technologies, people and stories that embody the remarkable tale of the computer revolution. Through our event and the Vintage Computer Festival Archives—our publicly accessible archive of computer hardware, software, literature and ephemera—we promote interest in researching and documenting the history of the computer. Above all, we promote the fun of playing with old computers. Latest blog entry: VCFX This Weekend! Events Blog Marketplace Library Gazette Gallery Projects Donate Sponsors Press Mailing List Links Read More Go to Site Von_Neumann summary Votes:0 " +" " + mess + " Read More Go to Site WELCOME Votes:0 WELCOME ! 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