The Jim Austin Computer Collection

 

Other Sites

 

Some great sites that you might like to visit:

Real computer museums open in the UK - let me know if you know of others.

• http://www.museum-of-computing.org.uk/        The Swindon (UK) based museum.
• http://www.retrobeep.org/                                The Bletchley park based computer museum.
• http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/                   The London Science museum has a nice collection.
• http://museum.man.ac.uk/                                  The Manchester Science and Industry museum has a nice collection.

Computer Museums else where.

• Australian Computer Museum Society                This is a nice collection - will be open one day perhaps?

Others sites... (many more about!)

• 8 Bit Classics
• Virtual Museum of Computing
• Digital retro book by Gordon Laing, featuring exhibits here at the museum
• BCS - Computer Conservation Society
• Pocket Computer Museum
• Dragon Data Archive
• The National Archive for the History of Computing
• The Edinburgh Computer History Project
• Virginia Tech Computing History
• IEEE Computing History
• Digibarn
• Internet Society History of the Internet
• National Museum of Photography, Film and Television
• Silicium - Museum of Data Processing
• http://simh.trailing-edge.com/                                                     Great site for DEC simulators, just about all the DEC machines simulated.
• http://www.cray-cyber.org/general/start.php                             Allows you to play with a Crays (on line)!
• http://www.hpmuseum.net/index.php                                         Great collection of HP machines in Melbourne Australia
• http://oldcomputers.net/about.html                                             Oldcomputers web site
• http://www.bitsavers.org/                                                         You want a manual or some software for an old machine - here it is! (well almost)
• http://www.vaxman.de/                                                             This is a great place, running old VAX machines.
• http://www.parse.com/~museum/                                             Great collection of Dec machines, inc sw for PDP 12 etc.
• http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/                                          Extensive collection of all sorts.
• http://www.thegalleryofoldiron.com                                           Nice collection of IBM mainframe parts!
• http://www.punch-card.co.uk/                                                   Interesting collection of IBM mainframe systems
• www.vintage-computer.com                                                     A large coillection of all sorts of machines.
• marketplace.vintage-computer.com                                           A Vintage Computer and Gaming Marketplace
• www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum                                        Some where to go and chat about collecting computers!
   

Other related sites

• http://research.microsoft.com/Users/gbell/Digital/DECMuseum.htm Gordon Bells DEC site.
• http://vt100.net a great site with manuals for most terminals - also some dec system manuals 
• Vintage Computers  The biggest vintage and antique resource directory on the web (some say!).
• http://www.classiccmp.org/    The news group for computer collecting nuts.