OnLineComputerMuseum

If you want to find patterns, you have to look at lots of systems. We need to preserve old systems so that we can look in them for patterns. So, this is a list of pages that describe old computer systems. Please add any you find.

Collections of software

• The RetrocomputingMuseum
• Computer History Simulation Project http://simh.trailing-edge.com/
• Emulators for 19 older machines, all of which run on a Mac. http://www.bannister.org/software/index_emu.htm
• HistoricSoftware collection (to be..) http://home.arcor.de/magnos/ccg/introccg.html
• Borland's Antique Software Museum (yes, Turbo Pascal 3.02 will run on windows XP!) http://bdn.borland.com/museum/

Museums

• Obsolete Computer Museum http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/
• Computer collection at Goettingen, Germany http://www.c-c-g.de
• Emphasis on sociological impact in this collection at Padua, Italy http://www.fwtunesco.org/musi/index.html
• Computer Museum History Center http://www.computerhistory.org/
• Online Virtual Computer History Museum: http://video.dlib.vt.edu/~history/

• Iain Fleming's Historic Computers http://www.galactic.co.uk/iainf/computers.html
• The Gentry Collection of Mature Computers: http://world.std.com/~mbg/home_systems.html
• Vintage Computer Festival: http://www.vintage.org/
• History of microprocessors http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIC/archive/cpu_history.html
• Jay Jaeger's Computer Collection: http://webpages.charter.net/thecomputercollection/collect.htm

Focused on one line of hardware or software

• CP/M http://www.cpm.z80.de/
• Xerox workstations http://www.spies.com/aek/xerox.html
• ICL/ 3 Rivers Perq workstations (1st 3 M machine) http://www.access.digex.net/~rdd/PERQ.html
• The Online Symbolics Museum http://smbx.org/ (see also http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/~r.f.moeller/symbolics-info/symbolics.html)
• Multics http://www.multicians.org/
• Doug Engelbart's system at DougEngelbartSymposium
• Butler Lampson's personal history http://www.research.microsoft.com/lampson/Systems.html
• The Museum of HP Calculators http://www.hpmuseum.org/ - Includes may links to other Old Computer sites.
• EDSAC simulator: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/
• Old DEC computers: http://www.pdp8.com
• PDP-11 Links and Resources: http://www.pdp11.org/
• VAX Archive: hardware info, resources, etc: http://www.vaxarchive.org/
• IBM 1130 History, Emulator, Software and Resources: http://www.ibm1130.org
• JefRaskin's Canon Cat: http://usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?CanonCat

Other computer history

• Computers at Columbia http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/

Also see ComputerIndustrialArchaeology, ReallyOldIron.

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