Here some links to places you may wish to visit:
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| Attached Materials on computer and computing history and over 200 ads |
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| bitsavers.org As of September, 2009 there are over 15,700 documents containing over 1.56 million pages in the archive. Would you like to help bitsavers? We’re looking for documentation and software for minicomputers and mainframes, from the 50′s to the 80′s. Software and PDF document archive |
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| Classic-Computers.org.nz This webspace is devoted to the computers and computing culture of those years, from my own personal perspective and often with a “down under” flavour. The reason for its existence is to preserve some history before it’s forgotten by those of us that were there, or so it can be discovered by those that weren’t. If you enjoy retro-computing, there is likely to be something on this site for you! |
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| Computer History Museum – Mountain View, California, USA The mission of the Computer History Museum is to preserve and present for posterity the artifacts and stories of the information age. As such, the Museum plays a unique role in the history of the computing revolution and its worldwide impact on the human experience. |
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| Craig’s Personal Collection Over the years, I have accumulated a few micros–about 100. For the time being, they are just stacked up in the garage waiting for some attention! |
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| Daves Old Computers I have been involved in the computer industry since the mid 1970′s, and I have seen many different machines and architectures come and go. Along the way I used and worked with a lot of them. The computer industry is one of the fastest changing fields there is, and in this headlong rush toward “progress”, the roots from which we have grown are often forgotten. It is a personal interest of mine to document and preserve some of those historic machines which “got us here”. |
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| DigiBarn Computer Museum – Northern California, USA The DigiBarn Computer Museum seeks to capture personal stories and track technological evolution through a large collection of vintage computer systems, manuals, videos, interviews, and other fossil relics of the “Cambrian explosion” of personal computing that ignited in 1975. Thus the interconnected redwood rooms of the museum constitute a kind of “memory palace” for the nerd-inclined and help us piece together the amazing story of the invention of personal computing and Cyberspace. |
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| DVQ Nice site with ads and nice photos micro, mini and mainframes. |
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| GuideBook Graphical User Interface Gallery Welcome to guidebook, a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces, as well as various materials related to them. |
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| Ira Goldklang’s TRS-80 Revived Site TRS-80 Revived Site by Ira Goldklang’s is an archive of everything related to the Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 microcomputer lines. Site contains emulators, programs, manuals, books, patches, games, hints, discussions, questions, forums, and tons more. |
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| 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 |
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| Obsolete Technology Website Early personal computers were nothing like present day computers, they had personality! Each was different and more exciting than the previous, with new features and capabilities. This website is dedicated to the preservation and display of these vintage computer systems. |
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| Old Computer Museum On this site you will be able to see my collection of vintage computers. I have started collecting computers some time ago, when a co-worker gave me his old IBM PC. That computer (you will see it in the collection) started a hobby and the entire collection. The other computers in my collection were ether donated by individuals, purchased on garage sales or through the Ebay auctions. All computers shown on this site are real and in good working condition, unless it says otherwise. |
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| Old Computers Books . com – Online Business We specialize in vintage computing books, manuals, journals, references, documentation and more — from ENIAC to IBM, from the era of vacuum tubes, to the transistor, to microprocessors; from punched cards to early personal computers. They have offered visitors of The Computer Archive a discount of 20% off any order good for the remainder of 2010 ! Use the code “comparchive2010″ at check out. Thanks, Anne! |
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| Old-Computers.com Welcome to old-computers.com, the most popular website for old computers. Have a trip down memory lane re-discovering your old computer, console or software you used to have. |
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| Radio Shack Catalogs This website is dedicated to America’s technology store… RadioShack. t this website you will be able to view these old 1939-2005 Radio Shack catalogs…year by year…page by page. |
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| The National Museum of Computing – Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, MK3 6EB The National Museum of Computing is dedicated to showing the development of computing in its broadest sense from the pioneering war time efforts that resulted in Colossus, to the products and systems we use today. The museum is part of the whole Bletchley Park experience, and all visitors to the park can visit the museum free of charge when it is open. |
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| The Vintage Computer This web site is dedicated to collecting, restoring and simply playing with old (A.K.A. vintage, classic, antique, outdated or just plain junk) computers. Like many in the computer age, I cut my teeth on computer systems that represent the dawn of the computer revolution. Some of these systems, such as the Altair 8800, Apple ][ and IBM PC have tons of historical significance. Others, such as the Atari 800, Osborne 1, Kaypro 2x and Dec Pro 350 have less historical but more personal significance (at least to me). All of these systems do, however, have one thing in common. They all take up some room in my home and often get time on the workbench to strut their stuff. |
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| Vintage Ad Browser This is seems to be a semi-automated site that searches the 'Net for vintage ads. I've linked you to direct to the computer stuff but it still an interesting site. |
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| Vintage Computer Festival - Travelling 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. |
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