41. Jones Encyclopedia Of Media & Technology Information: New Media, Media History, computers, their history and development.Category computers history......computers history and Development. Overview. Nothing epitomizes modernlife better than the computer. For better or worse, computers http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/comp_hd.html

Over 500 original articles, updated as companies and technologies change and new leaders emerge. New articles are published weekly from a variety of topics on the history, innovations, milestones, pioneers, and legal trends that shape the world of media, information technology, telecommunications, and broadband. Bluetooth Bluetooth is a short-range, wireless technology developed by Ericsson Inc., Intel Corp., Nokia Corp., IBM Corp. and Toshiba, which is used to interconnect electronic devices. A Bluetooth network can effectively replace physical cables or infrared connections to wirelessly integrate personal computers, wireless phones, printers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and a range of new and innovative applications. read entire article Biographies Media and IT industry innovators, pioneers, leaders and mavericks. Company Profiles History and analysis of the rise (and fall) of media and IT companies.

42. Computer History Museum Home Page Focuses exclusively on the history of computing.Category Reference Museums Science Technology computers...... Contribute Store About the Museum Site Search Copyright Privacy Feedback. © 2003 Computer history Museum. All rights reserved. http://www.computerhistory.org/

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43. Chronology Of Personal Computers Timeline of microcomputers from the development of the microprocessor in the 1960s through to the Category computers history......Chronology of Personal computers timeline of events tracing the history of personalcomputers, from the late 1960s to date. Chronology of Personal computers. http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist/

Chronology of Personal Computers internet e-mail: kpolsson@islandnet.com to this site, not to copy these pages to other web sites. URL: http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist/ This document is an attempt to bring various published sources together to present a timeline about Personal Computers. This web document is a sneak peek at a book project of mine. Since 1994, I have browsed over 1000 sources for date information related to personal computers. This brief summary includes many of the essential happenings that shaped the industry. The full text contains close to 3000 entries. I have tried to keep it open-minded and unbiased, but the annoying fact is that "the winners write the history books". References are numbered in [brackets], which can be found at the end of this document. A number after the dot gives the page in the source. Last updated: 2003 February 21. 1977-end December 23 Three scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories, William Shockley, Walter Brattain, and John Bardeen demonstrate their new invention of the point-contact transistor amplifier. The name transistor is short for "transfer resistance". ( Miniaturization of electronic circuits via the transistor is a key development making personal desktop computers small, reliable, and affordable.

44. THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING A collection of materials relating to the history of computing provided courtesy of the Department Category Recreation Collecting computers...... Try your knowledge of the history of computing here. INDEX. Accept with a grainof salt. switch on witchrequest@niestu.com Women in (the) Computing history. http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/

"Who controls the past commands the future. Who commands the future conquers the past." George Orwell This collection of materials relating to the history of computing is provided courtesy of the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech , and is sponsored in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation CDA-9312611 This site has been chosen by " Edu-Activ ", an educational resource site based in Germany. For other awards click here The Computer Museum is moving into its new home, a 120,000 square foot facility in the heart of Silicon Valley The Computer History Museum's new home is a two-story, 119,000 square foot architecturally distinctive structure, designed and developed in 1994. It is located on 7.5 acres of land in the heart of Silicon Valley at the intersection of highways 101 and 85. This highly visible location is convenient to both San Francisco and San Jose. The First Conference on History of Nordic Computing: HiNC 1 Organized by IFIP Working Group 9.7 In cooperation with IFIP TC3 will be held: June 16 - 18, 2003

45. The Machine That Changed The World 1,2,3 Mitch Kapor Microsoft - Bill Gates (an early history by John article by ChristopherR. Murphy (CS 3604, Spring 1997) Chained computers New Projections http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/TMTCTW.html

This site was chosen for a Look Smart Award in January 1997 Index Great Brains Inventing the Future The Paperback Computer The Thinking Machine ... The World At Your Fingertips A post-viewing Scavenger Hunt The following "slides" outline the major topics of presentation in each of the episodes of the video series The Machine That Changed the World which was produced by WGBH Television in Boston MA, in cooperation with the British Broadcasting Corp., with support from ACM NSF and UNISYS There is a book which accompanied the series that you may want to reference: Palfreman, Jon, and Doron Swade. The Dream Machine: Exploring the Computer Age , BBC Books, London, 1991, 208 pp. For more links to the history of computing pages click here We would appreciate receiving suggestions for additional links from this page to other pages that amplify the topics covered in this video series, or provide "side-bar" information on topics that were, of necessity, omitted from the show. Please send me e-mail . We also encourage teachers to give homework assignments that would result in the development of web pages that could be added to this site. This is particularly important for the last two episodes!. Remember that this video series were originally broadcast in 1991 and in the intervening years many things have happened in the computer business the World Wide Web for one! So if there are things we need to bring up-to-date, perhaps we can do it through the medium of this Web page rather than attempting to redo the original video.

46. History Of Computing Science: Computer History From The Past Lecture presented by Michelle A. Hoyle explaining how computers and computing science arose from using Category computers history...... history of computing from the past to the present. This offers the student or casualbrowser an overview of the advances in science that made desktop computers http://lecture.eingang.org/

Contents Next Introduction Welcome to Calypso's Lecture Series for CS-100. The first (and only) lecture in the series is about the history of computing from the past to the present. This offers the student or casual browser an overview of the advances in science that made desktop computers possible starting with the invention of counting. This lecture was originally given in the fall of 1994 at the University of Regina (Regina, Canada) for 400 CS-100 students. CS-100 is an introductory course designed primarily for students from other disciplines. It was not intended for the computing science major student. As such, this material was geared to appeal to those students. Michelle A. Hoyle Future additions to the lecture include a section discussing the impact of business microcomputers and mainframes to the history of computing. Teachers , this lecture is available to be used on a standalone machine in a classroom. Drop me some mail if you would like a copy for use in a classroom, museum, or kiosk. Navigation Go back to the previous slide/page in the lecture. Access key: p

47. Perspectives Of The Smithsonian: Smithsonian Computer History Although the development of modern communications and computers is among the mostimportant aspects of modern American history, historical writing about the http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/comp_bottom.htm

Exhibitions Many important objects from the Computer History Collection are on exhibition in Information Age: People, Information and Technology , a 14,000 square foot display on the first floor of the National Museum of American History. Opened in May 1990, the exhibition surveys the history of information technology and its relation to society from the origin of the telegraph to the present. The display has over 900 original artifacts. They include Samuel Morse's telegraphs, Alexander Bell's telephones, a Hollerith punched card machine, a 4-rotor German ENIGMA encoder used during World War II, the ENIAC computer, the TELESTAR test satellite, an automotive welding robot, a selection of early personal computers, and digital high definition television. With 50 interactive computer and video display, Information Age is also the Smithsonian's most interactive exhibition. Theme Information Age centers on the technical evolution of electrical and electronic information technology. The telegraph began a revolution in communications by transmitting information in electrical form instantly to distant locations. This new phenomenon of instant information was later expanded by the telephone, radio and television. Then the digital electronic computer made it possible to process information instantly. As the computer developed and matured, communication and processing technologies were joined into networks that now stretch around the world, affecting all areas of global society.

48. Historic Computer Images 400 dpi scans made by Mike Muuss for his Computer history archive. comptree.png6601x3822 The Computer Tree , from Electronic computers Within the Ordnance http://ftp.arl.mil/ftp/historic-computers/

Historic Computer Images This photo collection is one portion of my collection of History of Computing Information documents (seminal reports, 200+ pages online). Here is a collection of high resolution 400 dpi scans made by Mike Muuss for his Computer History archive. All of them were scanned on a Canon CLC-500 color scanner/printer. See below for full information on Use and Publication Rights See below for details on the five different file types available. Historical Drawings, Online Various drawings from the ENIAC manuals and other historical documents. All stored losslessly in GIF format in 4 sizes (full 400dpi size, 1280x1024, 640x480, 96x96). comp-tree.png "The Computer Tree", from Electronic Computers Within the Ordnance Corps , by Karl Kempf. "U.S. Army Diagram". Ancient Images, Online first_four.jpg first_four.png 3793x3009 "U.S. Army Photo", number 163-12-62. Left: Patsy Simmers, holding ENIAC board Next: Mrs. Gail Taylor, holding EDVAC board Next: Mrs. Milly Beck, holding ORDVAC board Right: Mrs. Norma Stec, holding BRLESC-I board bell-relay1.gif

49. Triumph Of The Nerds: A History Of The Computer Traces the development of computers from the abacus to the World Wide Web.Category Kids and Teens School Time Technology Computer Science...... A history OF THE COMPUTER computers have their beginnings back in prehistory, startingwith the abacus. Have a look! Abacus - c. 3000 BC, Transistors - 1947, http://www.pbs.org/nerds/timeline/

A HISTORY OF THE COMPUTER Computers have their beginnings back in pre-history, starting with the abacus. Have a look! Abacus - c. 3000 B.C. Transistors - 1947 Doug Engelbart - 1968 Apple II - 1977 ... PBS Online

50. Charles Babbage Institute: Table Of Contents A research center at the University of Minnesota dedicated to promoting the study and preservation Category computers history......© 2000 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.All rights reserved. The University of Minnesota is an equal http://www.cbi.umn.edu/

© 2000 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. Comments, questions to: kapla024@tc.umn.edu Updated: 12 Sep 2002

51. STIM - MouseSite Resource for exploring the history of human computer interaction beginning with the pioneering work Category computers history Pioneers Engelbart, Douglas......WELCOME to the MouseSite, a resource for exploring the history of human computerinteraction beginning with the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart and his http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/

WELCOME to the MouseSite, a resource for exploring the history of human computer interaction beginning with the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart and his colleagues at Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s. As a graduate student in electrical engineering at UC Berkeley after World War II Doug Engelbart began to imagine ways in which all sorts of information could be displayed on the screens of cathode ray tubes like the ones he had used as a radar technician during the war, and he dreamed of "flying" through a variety of information spaces. For two years beginning in 1959 at SRI in Menlo Park, Engelbart was provided the opportunity to pursue his visionary ideas further into the formulation of a theoretical framework for the co-evolution of human skills, knowledge, and organizations. At the heart of this vision was the computer as an extension of human communication capabilities and resource for the augmentation of human intellect. By 1968 Engelbart and a group of young computer scientists and electrical engineers he assembled in the Augmentation Research Center at SRI were able to stage a 90-minute public multimedia demonstration of a networked computer system. This was the world debut of the computer mouse, 2-dimensional display editing, hypermediaincluding in-file object addressing and linking, multiple windows with flexible view control, and on-screen video teleconferencing.

52. The History Of Computing Foundation Offers a detailed timeline on the history of computer. Sections include hardware, software, pioneers Category computers history......history of computing http://www.thocp.net/

53. Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Information Technology Technology. National Museum of American history's Chip Collection.From Carbons to computers The Changing American Office. Computer http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/techhistory.htm

Computers Computer History Information Age: People, Information and Technology National Museum of American History's Chip Collection From Carbons to Computers: The Changing American Office ... Film and Television Printing Technology Hall of Printing and Graphic Arts Printing Presses in the Graphic Arts Collection (PDF) Old and Rare Books, Information for Collectors Science and the Artists' Book Telegraphs, Telephones, Radio Samuel F. B. Morse Telegraph Alexander Graham Bell "Box" Telephone Information Age: People, Information and Technology The Science Service Historical Image Collection To learn more about information technology, visit the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History "Box" Telephone Personal Computer Encyclopedia Smithsonian A B C ... Public Inquiry Mail Service Smithsonian Institution

54. Computer History And Emulation Homepage computers to 1952 by Mark Brader The Complete ? List of Digital computers byBruce P. Watson Chronology of Events in the history of Microcomputers by Ken http://www.komkon.org/fms/comp/

Computer History This page is dedicated to the history of computing in general, and the history of personal computing in particular. Here, you will find a lot of bits and pieces of information about computers that were and are no longer. Some of them are still alive in the shape of emulators. Others are still being used by the scaterred groups of users, but are neither produced nor officially supported any longer. All of them have a great historical value though, as they provide us with a view on the beginning of the Digital Age we live in (not to mention that some of those old machines were quite more superior technologically than your present PC clone, or a Mac). Enjoy :). Prehistoric Computers [to 1952] by Mark Brader The Complete [?] List of Digital Computers by Bruce P. Watson Chronology of Events in the History of Microcomputers by Ken Pollson Analytical Engine by Computer History Association of California The Home Computer Hall of Fame by Chris Stratford The Home Computer Timeline by Chris Stratford The Old Computers List by Mark Robinson Robert Manners' Computer Museum Le Musee d'Histoire Informatique by Philippe Dubois Computer Emulators Archive at wilbur.stanford.edu

55. Directory For Social Issues In The Design Of Computing Technologies: History A personal collection of links to historical topics. Maintained by Rajiv Shah.Category computers history References...... It has filed lawsuits to defend people who say their computers were unfairly seized. 0Votes 0) Rate It. Freedom Fighters of the Digital World history of the http://www.rajivshah.com/directory/History/

Top : History Home Add a Resource Modify a Resource New ... Search Categories: Internet Links: Apple's History - See also Slashdot pop (Added: 9-Apr-2001 Hits: 241 Rating: Votes: 0) Rate It Cisco - Founding legends are a specialty of Silicon Valley, and none is more appealing than that of Cisco Systems: i/In the 1980s a young Stanford University couple invent the multiprotocol router and starts Cisco in their living room, using their own credit cards for financing. But the Cisco legend is incomplete. pop (Added: 3-Dec-2001 Hits: 133 Rating: Votes: 0) Rate It General computing history from CNET pop (Added: 24-Jun-2000 Hits: 374 Rating: 1.00 Votes: 1) Rate It IBM - IBM's missed opportunity pop (Added: 24-Jun-2000 Hits: 199 Rating: Votes: 0) Rate It NVIDIA And SEGA - History of NVIDIA. What makes this interesting is that they include a little bit about the NV2 chip which was developed originally for the Dreamcast. It was using quadratic texture maps (a derivative of NURBS) rather than polygons, see also Slashdot pop (Added: 12-Feb-2001 Hits: 144 Rating: Votes: 0) Rate It Online Gaming - History of Online Gaming including Pogo, Total Entertainment Network

56. PC History This site is under construction but has some nice pictures of some preIBM machines.Category computers history...... the PC history Association. Stan Veit will make his vast collection available onthe net and provide a site for learning about and trading antique computers. http://www.pc-history.org/

Pre-IBM PC Computers. MITS ALTAIR 8800-The start of it all The MITS Altair was the first 8080 based kit microcomputer. It was first introduced in the January, 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine as a construction project. The reaction to the Altair was un-expected by either the magazine or by MITS who designed it. Although not the first available microcomputer , it was the start of the industry. IMSAI -8080 The micro-computer that was more than a toy The Imsai 8080 developed by IMS Associates, was designed to use the same bus structure as the Altair 8800 with interchangeable circuit boards. The Imsai 8080 however was much better built, had a more powerful power supply, and front panel. It supplanted the Altair A model as the standard S-100 Bus computer. The Imsai was the first for a complete line of micros built by this company. Southwest Tech 6800- The kit builders favorite T he M6800 Computer kit from South West Technical Products Company used the Motorola 6800 processor and the SS-50 bus structure. Much less expensive than the S-100 bus computers and much simpler to build, the M6800 became very popular. In addition SWTPC provided a complete family of peripherals kits at very low cost. The software for the M6800 was excellent and very inexpensive. The SOL-First 8080 Desktop microcomputer Processor Technology company designed and sold a full line of boards for the S-100 computers. In 1977 they designed the SOL Computer which used most of their circuit boards. The SOL had a video terminal built-in, only requiring a video monitor. In a very attractive case with walnut wood sides, the SOL became a very popular computer that influenced the design of future computers. Pro. Tech did not provide a low cost floppy disk system so users turned to North Star for their disk storage.

57. Welcome To The Computer Museum Of America The Computer Museum of America (CMA) is located on the campus of Coleman College in La Mesa, California, Category Recreation Collecting computers...... Due to their age, most of the computers in the Museum's collection are on will allowour visitors to use some of these machines that made computing history. . http://www.computer-museum.org/

About the museum Hall of Fame Membership Exhibits ... The Circuit NEW HALL OF FAME CLASS Museum's Computer Hall of Fame set to announce newest inductees The Computer Museum of America has selected 10 computer pioneers to be inducted into the Computer Hall of Fame later this spring, Museum Curator David Weil announced. Half the 10 new inductees were selected by the public in an online poll. The other half of the Class of 2003 were chosen by a select panel of the Computer Museum of America. For more information on the existing inductees, visit the Computer Hall of Fame web site LIVE AT THE MUSEUM Navajo code talker Joe Morris talks to Museum crowd Navajo code talker Joe Morris speaks of his World War II service at the CMA. The Computer Museum of America celebrated its first year Downtown with a special guest – Joe Morris, Sr., one of the famed World War II Navajo code talkers. Mr. Morris related how he enlisted in 1942 at age 17 and was trained in San Diego to be one of the people responsible for secret messaging during the war. Their unique way of communicating confounded the enemy and stands as the only unbroken code used by modern armies. Mr. Morris’ wife, Charlotte, who accompanied him from their home in Daggett, Calif., admitted that she did not know of her husband's heroic role as a code talker until the early 1970s when public disclosure was permitted. In December, 2000, Congress awarded the Navajo code talkers the Congressional Medal of Honor.

58. The Modern History Of Computing Historical survey from Babbage onward; by B. Jack Copeland.Category Society Philosophy Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy...... Evans, C., 1976, ‘The Pioneers of Computing an Oral history of Computing B., 1972,‘On Alan Turing and the Origins of Digital computers’, in Meltzer, B http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-history/

version history HOW TO CITE THIS ENTRY Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A B C D ... Z content revised DEC The Modern History of Computing Historically, computers were human clerks who calculated in accordance with effective methods. These human computers did the sorts of calculation nowadays carried out by electronic computers, and many thousands of them were employed in commerce, government, and research establishments. The term computing machine Babbage Analog computers The Universal Turing Machine Electromechanical versus Electronic Computation ... Related Entries Babbage The Swedes Georg and Edvard Scheutz (father and son) constructed a modified version of Babbage's Difference Engine. Three were made, a prototype and two commercial models, one of these being sold to an observatory in Albany, New York, and the other to the Registrar-General's office in London, where it calculated and printed actuarial tables. Babbage worked closely with Ada Lovelace, daughter of the poet Byron, after whom the modern programming language ADA is named. Lovelace foresaw the possibility of using the Analytical Engine for non-numeric computation, suggesting that the Engine might even be capable of composing elaborate pieces of music. A large model of the Analytical Engine was under construction at the time of Babbage's death in 1871 but a full-scale version was never built. Babbage's idea of a general-purpose calculating engine was never forgotten, especially at Cambridge, and was on occasion a lively topic of mealtime discussion at the war-time headquarters of the Government Code and Cypher School, Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, birthplace of the electronic digital computer.

59. Www.apple-history.com Brief history of the company that changed the computing world forever. Look in the gallery for a descript Category computers history Operating Systems Mac OS......Please click here for the no frames version of this site. http://www.apple-history.com/

Please click here for the no frames version of this site.

60. CHArt - Computers And The History Of Art Group CHArt the computers and history of Art Group - a society open to all who havean interest in the application of computers to the study of art and design. http://www.chart.ac.uk/

CHArt Computers and the History of Art Welcome to CHArt's web site. CHArt was established in 1985 by art and design historians who happened also to be computer enthusiasts. Initially a forum for the exchange of ideas between people who were using computers in their research, the largely academic membership was soon augmented by members from museums and art galleries, as well as individuals involved in the management of the visual and textual archives and libraries relevant to the subject. CHArt is a society open to all who have an interest in the application of computers to the study of art and design. We hold an annual conference and publish the conference proceedings, run an email discussion list and keep in contact with our members through a newsletter. CHArt also sponsors the World Wide Web Virtual Library for History of Art . You will find further details of all our publications and activities on this web site. CALL FOR PAPERS: CHArt NINETEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE Convergent Practices: New approaches to Art and visual culture Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD

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