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.

www.museum-of-computing.org.uk	The Swindon (UK) based museum
www.tnmoc.org	The Bletchley park based computer museum
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk	The London Science museum has a nice collection
www.msim.org.uk	The Manchester Science and Industry museum has a nice collection
www.ict1301.co.uk	This is a museum with one machine, a ICT1301, amazing.
www.computinghistory.org.uk	This is a great UK collection open to the public
http://www.t-lcarchive.org	This is an amazing collection, soon to be open.

 

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

www.museudocomputador.com.br/

homeingles2.php    The Brazilian computer museum

http://www.pcmuseum.ca/   Personal computer museum in canada.

http://www.datamuseum.dk/site_dk/index.shtml   A museum in Denmark (I think!)

http://www.technikum29.de/en/  A very nice museum in Germany, which as a lot of nice systems as well as other things.

http://www.digibarn.com/  A very active centre in the US.

http://www.science.uva.nl/museum/ A nice collection at the University of Amsterdam.

www.sthmuseum.org A real super computer collection.

The Bombe rebuild pages

http://www.jharper.demon.co.uk/appeal1.htm

A video of Dorian Swade talk on collecting computers:

http://www.blinkx.com/video/collecting-and-conserving-computers-doron-swade/nOOOslJ3SB-I3IyXomEhuA

James Carters amazing seen them in films site :

http://starringthecomputer.com/

The source of information on UK history of computing:

http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/about.htm     The BCS Computer Conservation Society

http://tardis.dl.ac.uk/computing_history The history of computing at Daresbury albs in the UK.

Others sites... (many more about!)

• 8 Bit Classics
• A general history of computing siite.
• 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!
• www.heydon.org/kevan/collection     A great collection of various machines.
• http://www.jupiter-ace.co.uk   A site on the Jupiter ACE
• http://www.thecorememory.com  A site on the Jupiter ACE
•  mymk14.co.uk This is where you can get lots of info in SC/MP based MK14.

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 and some computers - also some dec system manuals 
• http://vt100.net/manx/ This is the same as above but lots more 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.
• http://www.rtd-net.de/konrad-zuse-e.html    A site about Konrad Zuse who build a Computer from relays in the 1940's
• http://www.journos.co.za/history/archive/  A nice collection of articles on past computer systems.
• http://www.pcauthority.com.au/Gallery/153867,computer-history-museum-photo-gallery-weird-fascinating-photos-including-a-giant-cray-and-a-60kg-hard-drive.aspx/1  A nice collection of phons from the US computer musium..-60kg-hard-drive.aspx/1