History subcat
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- 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.
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- Computer History
- Articles and photos on many topics; user submitted content with Wiki-style editing for registered users; photo gallery, forum, feedback.
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- History of Computers
- A directory of sites about the history of computers arranged categorically and with specific topic and general topic sections.
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- Punched Cards
- Covers the earliest ways of encoding data up to the cards used in voting systems today.
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- Reflections of a ModemJunkie
- Writings on computers, the early online world, and the Internet, dating from 1992 to 2000.
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- The History of Computing Project
- Offers a detailed timeline on the history of computer. Sections include hardware, software, pioneers and references.
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- 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.
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- The Modern History of Computing
- Historical survey from Babbage onward; by B. Jack Copeland from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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- The Obsolete Technology Website
- Pictures, documents, and advertisements of classic computers from the 1970's and 1980's.
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- 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.
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- Triumph of the Nerds
- Biographies, an interactive game, and a questions and answers forum trace the birth of the personal computer at this PBS companion site.
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