History of Computers

A directory of sites about the history of computers arranged categorically and with specific topic and general topic sections.
http://www.hitmill.com/computers/computerhx1.html

Computer History Images

Pictures of many of the pioneering computers.
http://www.Crowl.org/Lawrence/history/

Computer Industry History

Comprehensive list of links to the best computer industry history resources that can currently be found on the 'Net
http://www.elsop.com/wrc/h_comput.htm

Silicon Valley History and Future

Silicon Valley -- San Francisco Bay Area -- background, trends and forecast
http://www.internetvalley.com/introduction.html

Computing Millennium timeline

A project to create the definitive list of the 1,000 key innovations and events in the last 1,000 years of information technology.
http://www.computingnet.co.uk

PC History

This site is under construction but has some nice pictures of some pre-IBM machines.
http://pc-history.org/

Charles Babbage Institute (CBI)

A research center at the University of Minnesota dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of computing and information processing.
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/

Computer History Association of California

A non-profit corporation, who safeguards and organizes the history of electronic computing, not only in California, but nationally and internationally. They collect and archive hardware, software and documents.
http://www.chac.org/

Chronology of Personal Computers

Timeline of microcomputers from the development of the microprocessor in the 1960s through to the present day. Includes hardware, software, peripherals, companies, and individuals.
http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist/

Computers, Videogames and Arcade Collector's Ring

http://www.chez.com/samurai/RING/ring.htm

Triumph of the Nerds

Bios, an interactive game, and a Q&A forum trace the birth of the personal computer at this PBS companion site.
http://www.pbs.org/nerds/

Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology

New updated edition from MIT Press, with new interviews of historic characters.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3784

Brief History of Computers

Charts the evolution of computers from ancient times to the present.
http://www.angelfire.com/de3/dacz/briefhistoryintro.htm

The History of Computing Project

Offers a detailed timeline on the history of computer. Sections include hardware, software, pioneers and references.
http://www.thocp.net

Museum of the USSR Computers History

A virtual museum containing historical information on computers and computer facilities in the USSR. Includes descriptions of computers, their characteristics, pictures, and personalities.
http://www.bashedu.ru/konkurs/tarhov/english/index_e.htm

The History of Computing Science: From the Past to the Present

Lecture presented by Michelle A. Hoyle explaining how computers and computing science arose from using sticks with notches for counting, to the massive explosion of personal computers in the 1980s.
http://lecture.eingang.org/

Punched Cards

Covers the earliest ways of encoding data up to the cards used in voting systems today.
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/index.html

The Obsolete Technology Website

Pictures, documents, and advertisements of classic computers from the 1970's and 1980's.
http://oldcomputers.net

Jargon File Resources

The Jargon File (AKA, _The New Hacker's Dictionary_) is an essential repository of computer historical information.
http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/

The History of Computing

Detailed information including early pioneers and companies, archives, languages, and networking from the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/

Reflections of a ModemJunkie

Writings on computers, the early online world, and the Internet, dating from 1992 to 2000.
http://www.lgrossman.com/mjnk/

Tools For Thought

by Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of computing; includes Babbage, Turing, von Neumann, Engelbart, PARC, Kay, and Atari.
http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/

Computer History Museum

Focuses exclusively on the history of computing. Located in Mountain View, California. Search the collection, illustrated timeline, online exhibits and select images from the collection, "This Day in History," curator's choice, and the Hall of Fellows
http://computerhistory.org

The Modern History of Computing

Historical survey from Babbage onward; by B. Jack Copeland from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-history/