Other Sites

The Jim Austin Computer Collection

 

Other Sites

Some great sites that you might like to visit. All links checked 4 Feb 2012.

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

www.museumofcomputing.org.uk

The Swindon (UK) based museum.

www.tnmoc.org

The Bletchley park based computer museum - The National Museum of Computing.

www.sciencemuseum.org.uk

The London Science museum has a nice collection.

www.mosi.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.

National Museum of Photography, Film and Television

History of media in the UK.

www.t-lcarchive.org

This is an amazing collection, soon to be open.

http://www.retrocomputermuseum.co.uk

A growing collection and blog.

http://hursley.slx-online.biz/

A new (2012) museum at IBM site in hursely, on IBM.

http://www.museumoftechnology.org.uk/index.php

MUSEUM OF TECHNOLOGY - all sorts of non computer technology.

 

 

Films of interest

http://www.youtube.com/user/computing heritage

Various films on computers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knXWMjIA59c

A film on Colossus

 

Vintage Computer Societies

http://www.acms.org.au/

Australian Computer museum collection and society

http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/about.htm

The BCS Computer Conservation Society (UK)

http://www.ithistory.org/index.php

The IT History Society

Vintage computer forums, blog's etc...

The vintage computing forum 

A useful forum for chatting about machines etc.

Computer Museums and collections outside the UK

The Computer History Museum 

This is the main US museum of computing.

Australian Computer Museum Society

This is a nice collection - will be open one day perhaps?

http://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.

http://www.pdpplanet.com

The computer museum in seattle, USA.

http://www.cray-cyber.org/general/start.php

Allows you to play with a Crays (on line)!

http://www.vaxman.de/

This is a great place, running old VAX machines.

hhtp://www.heydon.org/kevan/collection

Kevins collection!

http://www.vintage-icl-computers.com/

Collection of ICL things + other britsh computers

http://www.glennsmuseum.com/

A collection of IBM and other machines.

http://www.vintchip.com/index.html

A collection of chips and other artifacts.

http://www.computermuseum-oldenburg.de

The Oldenburge museum in Germany.

 

Some interesting sites

 

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

The Bombe rebuild pages

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

A video of Dorian Swade talk on collecting computers:

http://starringthecomputer.com/

James Carters amazing seen them in films site

http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~pcc/XB055/pics.html

Pete Coopers photos of Computer Science machine room at University of York though time.

http://maben.homeip.net/static/S100/index.html

Great set of computer documents

The source of information on UK history of computing

 

www.ourcomputerheritage.org 

A site dedicated to british computer history

http://tardis.dl.ac.uk/computing_history

The history of computing at Daresbury in the UK

http://tardis.dl.ac.uk/computing_history/archive.html

Some photos from Daresbury

 

Others sites... (many more about!)

 

A general history of computing site

History of computers.

Digital retro book by Gordon Laing, featuring exhibits here at the museum

A good book.

BCS - Computer Conservation Society

The UK society on historic computers.

Pocket Computer Museum

Pocket computers.

Dragon Data Archive

The dragon computer history site.

http://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk/research/nahc/

The UK archive for the history of computing. It contains the note book of Geoffrey Toothill, with diagrams of the design of the first stored program computer.

The Edinburgh Computer History Project

The link to the Edinburgh computer history project.

Virginia Tech Computing History

History of computing at Virginia Tech in the US.

IEEE Computing History

Link to the IEEE

Internet Society History of the Internet

History of the internet

Silicium - Museum of Data Processing

A french computer museum.

http://simh.trailing-edge.com/

Great site for DEC simulators, just about all the DEC machines simulated

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.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

http://www.vintage-computer.com

A large collection of all sorts of machines

http://marketplace.vintage-computer.com

A Vintage Computer and Gaming Marketplace

http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum

Some where to go and chat about collecting computers!

http://www.jupiter-ace.co.uk

A site on the Jupiter ACE

http://www.thecorememory.com 

A site on NCR machines.

http://mymk14.co.uk

This is where you can get lots of info in SC/MP based MK14

http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/

an amazing simulator for a 6502 processor

http://mynewoffice.com/pcmuseum/default.htm

Another great collection

http://the-eniac.com

A great site on the first non-stored program computer

http://www.nzeldes.com/HOC/HOC_Core.htm

A neat computing history site

http://www.tcf.ua.edu/AZ/ITHistoryOutline.htm

some more interesting history

http://www.smithschips.com.au

a great collection of intel processors

http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/

a collection of 'running' digital machines!

http://www.fcet.staffs.ac.uk/jdw1/sucfm/sucfmcomputers.htm

a history and time line of computers

http://www.thepcpioneers.com

history of the pc site

http://www.actsirius1.co.uk/

act sirius 1 site

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.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 photos from the US computer museum.

http://www.hpcwire.com/blog's/Hobbyist-Crafts-Desktop-Cray-1-102107179.html

Amazing - build a Cray 1!

http://www.9track.net

Dec VAX simulators site.

http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~pcc/pc_history/index.html

Pete Coopers proceoor history site.

 

Sites related to computing that might be helpful

URL

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http://www.mapcon.com/computer-and-software-accessibility-for-the-disabled Info on dissabled access

http://www.1800wheelchair.ca/news/post/computing-for-those-with-special-needs.aspx

A site that helps access to computers by the disabled