Other Sites
Some great sites that you might like to visit. All links checked 4 Feb 2012.
Real computer museums open in the
The Swindon (UK) based museum. |
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The Bletchley park based computer museum - The National Museum of Computing. |
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The London Science museum has a nice collection. |
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The Manchester Science and Industry museum has a nice collection. |
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This is a museum with one machine, a ICT1301, amazing. |
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This is a great UK collection open to the public. |
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History of media in the UK. |
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This is an amazing collection, soon to be open. |
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A growing collection and blog. |
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A new (2012) museum at IBM site in hursely, on IBM. |
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MUSEUM OF TECHNOLOGY - all sorts of non computer technology. |
Films of interest
Various films on computers |
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A film on Colossus |
Vintage Computer Societies
Australian Computer museum collection and society |
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The BCS Computer Conservation Society (UK) |
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The IT History Society |
Vintage computer forums, blog's etc...
A useful forum for chatting about machines etc. |
Computer Museums and collections outside the UK
This is the main US museum of computing. |
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This is a nice collection - will be open one day perhaps? | |
The Brazilian computer museum. |
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Personal computer museum in Canada. |
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A museum in Denmark (I think!). |
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A very nice museum in Germany, which as a lot of nice systems as well as other things. |
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A very active centre in the US. |
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A nice collection at the University of Amsterdam. |
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A real super computer collection. |
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The computer museum in seattle, USA. |
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Allows you to play with a Crays (on line)! |
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This is a great place, running old VAX machines. |
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Kevins collection! |
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Collection of ICL things + other britsh computers |
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A collection of IBM and other machines. |
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A collection of chips and other artifacts. |
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The Oldenburge museum in Germany. |
Some interesting sites |
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The Bombe rebuild pages |
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A video of Dorian Swade talk on collecting computers: |
James Carters amazing seen them in films site |
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Pete Coopers photos of Computer Science machine room at University of York though time. |
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Great set of computer documents |
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The source of information on UK history of computing |
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A site dedicated to british computer history |
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The history of computing at Daresbury in the UK |
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Some photos from Daresbury |
Others sites... (many more about!) |
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History of computers. |
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A good book. |
The UK society on historic computers. |
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Pocket computers. |
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The dragon computer history site. |
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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. |
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The link to the Edinburgh computer history project. |
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History of computing at Virginia Tech in the US. |
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Link to the IEEE |
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History of the internet |
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A french computer museum. |
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Great site for DEC simulators, just about all the DEC machines simulated |
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Great collection of HP machines in
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Oldcomputers web site |
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You want a manual or some software for an old machine - here it is! (well almost) |
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Extensive collection of all sorts |
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Nice collection of IBM mainframe parts! |
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Interesting collection of IBM mainframe systems |
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A large collection of all sorts of machines |
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A Vintage Computer and Gaming Marketplace |
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Some where to go and chat about collecting computers! |
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A site on the Jupiter ACE |
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A site on NCR machines. |
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This is where you can get lots of info in SC/MP based MK14 |
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an amazing simulator for a 6502 processor |
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Another great collection |
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A great site on the first non-stored program computer |
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A neat computing history site |
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some more interesting history |
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a great collection of intel processors |
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a collection of 'running' digital machines! |
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a history and time line of computers |
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history of the pc site |
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act sirius 1 site |
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Gordon Bells DEC site. |
a great site with manuals for most terminals and some computers - also some dec system manuals |
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This is the same as above but lots more manuals. |
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The biggest vintage and antique resource directory on the web (some say!). |
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The news group for computer collecting nuts. |
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A site about Konrad Zuse who build a Computer from relays in the 1940's |
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A nice collection of photos from the US computer museum. |
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Amazing - build a Cray 1! |
Dec VAX simulators site. |
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Pete Coopers proceoor history site. |
Sites related to computing that might be helpful
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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 |