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This is the Computer History Wiki, a knowledge base about historic computers which anyone can join in order to edit. (Due to past problems with spam, anonymous editing and automatic account creation have had to be disabled.)
  
This wiki is an experiment by me to create a means for knowledgeable people to enter their information into some kind of a knowledge base, however, not including the relatively formal tone imposed by Wikipedia. For example, sentences with "I seem to recall" would be perfectly legitimate, and even wanted, here, but would quite rapidly be weeded out of a Wikipedia article. In short, a more practical, less formal tone.
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Currently, we've got [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles!
  
My desire to set up this English wiki stems from my frustration with adding information to a Norwegian wiki, the Norwegian Computer History Society wiki, and realizing that my content would be reachable only to a very limited audience - Scandinavians, at best.
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<big> [[:Category:Computers|Systems]] • [[:Category:Peripherals|Peripherals]] • [[:Category:Software|Software]] • [[:Category:Computer Manufacturers|Manufacturers]] • [[:Category:Operating Systems|Operating Systems]] • [[:Category:Network Protocols|Networking]] • [[:Category:Tutorials|Tutorials]] • [[Other Resources]]</big>
  
If you have any information you want to contribute to this wiki, '''please, do it'''. I'd much rather remove or modify ten or twenty bad submissions than miss out on a potentially good one.
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For an introduction to MediaWiki syntax and Computer History Wiki conventions, please see [[Help:Contents|Help]].
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I hope this wiki could grow into a useful resource at some point, for everyone interested in classic computing, on all points of the knowledge scale. I realize that there are more specific wikis for Commodore and Amiga and so on, but this is an effort to be a more general computing history wiki.
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==Introduction by the Administrators==
  
Though the current URL is of course temporary, this is an experiment to see if people actually make edits to this page and find it useful. If it "catches on", I will register a domain with an appropriate name. (My threshold for "catches on" is quite low.) Worst case scenario, this becomes a one-user CMS; I'd write this on my homepage if it wasn't in a Wiki. :)
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This wiki is an experiment to create a means for knowledgeable people to enter their information into some kind of a knowledge base.  This is however, not the relatively formalized tone and style imposed by Wikipedia. Sentences starting with "I seem to recall" are perfectly welcome here - and articles do '''not''' have to be in the descriptive, encyclopedic style Wikipedia enforces. On the contrary, it is ''preferred'' that many of the articles be references, guides, helpful hints, suggestions, [[:Category:Tutorials|tutorials]] and so on.
  
[[User:Toresbe|Toresbe]] 16:53, 14 May 2007 (PDT)
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If you have any information you want to contribute to this wiki, '''please, contribute it'''.  We'd much rather remove or modify a dozen potentially unsuited submissions than miss out on a single good one.  We hope this wiki grows into a useful resource for everyone interested in classic computing, no matter what their level of knowledge may be; it is meant to be all-encompassing.  -- [[User:Toresbe|Tore]] & [[User:Lucky|Lucky]] 16:11, 16 May 2007 (PDT)
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==Getting an account==
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As noted above, due to past problems with spam, you need an account to edit. [[User:Toresbe|Tore]], who handles requests for accounts filed via the system, is often busy, but I too am happy to create accounts - just email me (jnc at alum dot mit dot edu). Please let me know what account name you'd like, and what email address to associate with it, and I'll try and get right to it. The system will send you an email with a temporary password; if you don't see it, and I have sent you an acknowledgement, check your spam-traps: we've had issues with that. [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 15:33, 22 October 2017 (CEST)
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==Wanted Pages==
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If you're not sure what to add, the [[Special:WantedPages|Wanted pages]] page is always a good place to start! Right at the moment, two [[Apple II]] pages, and a [[Windows]] page, are top of the list. So if you have any expertise there, please weigh in! [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 21:44, 2 August 2017 (CEST)
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Revision as of 15:34, 22 October 2017

Welcome to the Computer History Wiki!

This is the Computer History Wiki, a knowledge base about historic computers which anyone can join in order to edit. (Due to past problems with spam, anonymous editing and automatic account creation have had to be disabled.)

Currently, we've got 2,521 articles!

SystemsPeripheralsSoftwareManufacturersOperating SystemsNetworkingTutorialsOther Resources

For an introduction to MediaWiki syntax and Computer History Wiki conventions, please see Help.

Introduction by the Administrators

This wiki is an experiment to create a means for knowledgeable people to enter their information into some kind of a knowledge base. This is however, not the relatively formalized tone and style imposed by Wikipedia. Sentences starting with "I seem to recall" are perfectly welcome here - and articles do not have to be in the descriptive, encyclopedic style Wikipedia enforces. On the contrary, it is preferred that many of the articles be references, guides, helpful hints, suggestions, tutorials and so on.

If you have any information you want to contribute to this wiki, please, contribute it. We'd much rather remove or modify a dozen potentially unsuited submissions than miss out on a single good one. We hope this wiki grows into a useful resource for everyone interested in classic computing, no matter what their level of knowledge may be; it is meant to be all-encompassing. -- Tore & Lucky 16:11, 16 May 2007 (PDT)

Getting an account

As noted above, due to past problems with spam, you need an account to edit. Tore, who handles requests for accounts filed via the system, is often busy, but I too am happy to create accounts - just email me (jnc at alum dot mit dot edu). Please let me know what account name you'd like, and what email address to associate with it, and I'll try and get right to it. The system will send you an email with a temporary password; if you don't see it, and I have sent you an acknowledgement, check your spam-traps: we've had issues with that. Jnc (talk) 15:33, 22 October 2017 (CEST)

Wanted Pages

If you're not sure what to add, the Wanted pages page is always a good place to start! Right at the moment, two Apple II pages, and a Windows page, are top of the list. So if you have any expertise there, please weigh in! Jnc (talk) 21:44, 2 August 2017 (CEST)

News

  • Orphans - If you look at the list of orphaned pages, we have quite a few - and I have just done a lot of work reducing the number. If you create a page, you will know it is there - but others probably will not, unless it is linked to by something else. Please make doing that a part of your routine! Jnc (talk) 22:56, 14 January 2024 (CET)
  • Expandable navigation boxes - For navigation boxes which have gotten too large, there is now a way to hide part of them behind an 'Expand/Collapse' button; see Help:Introduction to Templates, which now contains instructions for both kinds. An example of an expandable one may be seen here. Jnc (talk) 21:39, 29 December 2023 (CET)

Older news is here.