Computer History Sites Elsewhere
Computer History Sites Elsewhere
A number of other Web sites are devoted to early computers. They
include:
History of Computing Information Information about the history
of
computing, "assembled by Mike Muuss for your information and
edification". A great
collection of pictures and documents in an archive compiled "to help the
public
remember that it was the U. S. Army which initiated the computer
revolution ...
all modern computers are descended from ENIAC, EDVAC, ORDVAC, and BRLESC
-- all
of which were conceived of and built to address pressing Army needs".
The National Archive for the History of Computing is Manchester
University's site in the UK.
The Charles Babbage Institute of Computer History: a research
center at
the University of Minnesota dedicated to promoting the study and
preservation of
the history of information processing through historical research and
archival
activity.
The Virtual Museum of Computing (VMoC) which has hyperlinks to
just about everywhere connected with the history of computing on the
WWW.
Paul Pierce's Computer Collection. Paul Pierce collects the
larger,
older systems. The collection includes several IBM mainframe computers
and a
minicomputer collection including 7 members of the Digital PDP-8 family,
covering
its entire evolution from Digital's first metal transistor logic modules
to the
final microprocessor version.
The Australian Computer Museum Inc. The Australian Computer Museum
Society
(ACMS) was formed in 1994 to establish a museum of computing in
Australia similar
to the world famous Boston Computer Museum in the USA and to foster an
awareness
and knowledge of the history of computing in Australia.
Computer Conservation Society (UK). The aims of the CCS are to :
promote the
conservation of historic computers; develop awareness of the importance
of
historic computers; encourage research on historic computers. They
maintain an
ftp site with several simulators of historic British computers.
