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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.
Meta Description: [ Archives and research center for the history of computing, located at University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Chronology of Personal Computers: timeline of events tracing the history of personal computers, from the late 1960s to date. ]

Computer History Association of California - Non-profit corporation, safeguards and organizes the history of electronic computing, internationally, nationally, and in California. They collect and archive hardware, software, and documents.
Meta Description: [ The history of computing in California, the magazine we publish about it, and the museum we're creating to display it. Links to computer history resources worldwide. ]

Computer History Images - Pictures of many of the pioneering computers.

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 (awards for contributions to computing).
Meta Description: [ The world's largest history museum for the preservation and presentation of artifacts and stories of the Information Age located in the heart of Silicon Valley ]

Computers, Videogames and Arcade Collector's Ring -

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.

History of Computers - A directory of sites about the history of computers arranged categorically and with specific topic and general topic sections.
Meta Description: [ The development of the modern day computer was the result of advances in technologies and man's need to quantify. The abacus was one of the first counting machines. Papyrus helped early man to record language and numbers. Some of the earlier counting machines lacked the technology to make the des... ]

Jargon File Resources - The Jargon File (AKA, _The New Hacker's Dictionary_) is an essential repository of computer historical information.

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.

National Archive for the History of Computing - Houses the UK's most important collection of documents relating to the history of computing, and encourages interest and study in the history of computing more generally.
Meta Description: [ The National Archive for the History of Computing houses the UK's most important collection of documents relating to thehistory of computing, and encourages interest and study in the history of computing more generally. ]

PC History - This site is under construction but has some nice pictures of some pre-IBM machines.

Punched Cards - Covers the earliest ways of encoding data up to the cards used in voting systems today.
Meta Description: [ punched card codes, data formats and historical information ]

Reflections of a ModemJunkie - Writings on computers, the early online world, and the Internet, dating from 1992 to 2000.

ry History - Comprehensive list of links to the best computer industry history resources that can currently be found on the 'Net
Meta Description: [ LinkScan Finds Broken Links and Creates SiteMaps. Developed by Electronic Software Publishing Corporation (Elsop) ]

Silicon Valley History and Future - Silicon Valley -- San Francisco Bay Area -- background, trends and forecast
Meta Description: [ Silicon Valley History and Future: Silicon Valley Timeline, Trends and more ]

The History of Computing - Detailed information including early pioneers and companies, archives, languages, and networking from the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.

The History of Computing Project - Offers a detailed timeline on the history of computer. Sections include hardware, software, pioneers and references.
Meta Description: [ history of computing, computerhistory, history of computers ]

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.
Meta Description: [ An overview of the developments that allowed the modern day computer to arise from first principles. ]

The Modern History of Computing - Historical survey from Babbage onward; by B. Jack Copeland from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

The Obsolete Technology Website - Pictures, documents, and advertisements of classic computers from the 1970's and 1980's.
Meta Description: [ Old Computers - rare, vintage and obsolete computers! ]

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.

Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology - New updated edition from MIT Press, with new interviews of historic characters.
Meta Description: [ n a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay. ]

Triumph of the Nerds - Bios, an interactive game, and a QA forum trace the birth of the personal computer at this PBS companion site.
Meta Description: [ Bios, an interactive game, and a Q&A forum trace the birth of the personal computer at this PBS companion site. ]

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