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  • History of Zork
    The history of [[Zork]] can be found here http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Articles/NZT/zo The History of Zork
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  • Computer History Museum
    ...oral histories), and educating people in general about computer and their history. ...useum closed, The Computer Museum History Center was re-named to 'Computer History Museum'.
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  • Centre for Computing History
    ...re for Computing History''', in Cambridge, is the major museum of computer history in the United Kingdom; it was formed in 2007, and opened to the public in 2 * [[Computer History Museum]]
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  • Main Page
    <center><h2>'''Welcome to the Computer History Wiki!'''</h2> This is the Computer History Wiki ('CHWiki', for short), a knowledge base about historic computers which
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  • RSX-11
    ...google.com/groups?selm=g11Va.162679%24ye4.109589%40sccrnsc01&output=gplain history of precursors to RSX-11] in [http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=U
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  • RSTS/E
    == History ==
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  • PDP-11
    * [https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/hardware/micronotes/numerical/ Micronotes] - internal DEC technical * [https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/hardware/ PDP-11 hardware] - large collection of odds and ends
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  • Digital Equipment Corporation
    ...al Equipment Corporation'', Contemporary, Chicago, 1988 - The best general history of DEC, but stops at 1987 ...rdonbell.azurewebsites.net/Digital/timeline/dechistory.htm Digital 41 Year History CD]
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  • 1979
    =The year 1979 in computer history=
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  • 1978
    =The year 1978 in computer history=
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  • 1977
    =The year 1977 in computer history=
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  • UNIX
    ...//www.amazon.com/UNIX-History-Memoir-Brian-Kernighan/dp/1695978552 UNIX: A History and a Memoir] - Kernighan's memoir of UNIX and Bell Labs ** [http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/unix-before-berkeley/ A History of UNIX before Berkeley: UNIX Evolution: 1975-1984]
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  • International Business Machines
    ...ortened to '''IBM''') is a company which has played a decisive role in the history of computing. * [http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_basinfo.html IBM Mainframes - Basic informatio
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  • 1953
    =The year 1953 in computer history=
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  • 1949
    =The year 1949 in computer history=
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  • 1952
    =The year 1952 in computer history=
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  • 1951
    =The year 1951 in computer history=
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  • VMS
    ...h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/os/openvms-release-history.txt OpenVMS release history] (via Wayback machine).
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  • Timeline of Norsk Data
    ...tures, and some more summaries of the products introduced. Also, the later history is - stated mildly - anemic. [[Category:Timelines]][[Category:Norsk Data]][[Category:Norwegian Computer History]]
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  • PDP-7
    ...com/pdp7.html ''"The famous PDP-7 comes to the rescue"''] (Bell Labs' Unix history) <!-- original http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/pdp7.htmlnow offline -->
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  • PDP-10
    ...ultimate.com/phil/pdp10/Fast-ACs Life in the Fast AC's] - amusing personal history of PDP-10's ...20/04/17/the-xkl-toad-1-system/ The XKL Toad-1 System] - includes a decent history of the PDP-10
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  • TOPS-20
    * [https://www.inwap.com/pdp10/tops-history.txt The History of TOPS, or Life in the Fast AC's]
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  • Linux
    == Linux History == Linux History
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  • NetBSD
    ...m], "..the agreement is very clear, and nobody cares about that early code history any more--so this is all water under the bridge.". Historians beg to differ
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  • IBM System/360
    == History == ...out of business. But, it was a VERY well thought-out bet, and of course, history shows that it was one of the most successful products of all time. They DID
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  • Disk II
    * [http://apple2history.org/history/ah05.html Apple II History - Chapter 5 (Disk II)]
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  • EDSAC
    ...com/book/9780124916500/a-history-of-computing-in-the-twentieth-century ''A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century''], Academic Press, New York, 1980 - * Raúl Rojas, Ulf Hashagen (editors), ''The First Computers: History and Architectures'', MIT Press, Cambridge, 2002 - the last chapter in part
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  • 1967
    =The year 1967 in computer history=
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  • 1950
    =The year 1950 in computer history=
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  • Ferranti
    * John F. Wilson, ''Ferranti: A History - Volume I: Building a Family Business, 1882–1975'', Carnegie Publishing, * John F. Wilson, ''Ferranti: A History - Volume 2: From Family Firm to Multinational, 1975-1987'', Crucible Books,
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  • NORD-20
    [[Category:Norsk Data Hardware]][[Category:Norwegian Computer History]]
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  • SunOS
    ==History==
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  • SIMH
    ...nd as such, is a very important emulator for anyone interested in computer history; in particular, that of [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] systems, as t
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  • Intel 8080
    ...istory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Intel_8080/102658123.05.01.pdf Oral History Panel on the Development and Promotion of the Intel 8080 Microprocessor]
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  • Zork
    And the history Revision history:
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  • A/UX
    ....unix.org/Posters/download/unix_posterA3.pdf The Single UNIX Specification History & Timeline]
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  • History of Zork
    The history of [[Zork]] can be found here http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Articles/NZT/zo The History of Zork
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  • Computer Systems Research Group
    ...From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable] - An excellent overview of the history of the CSRG, as told by Marshall Kirk McKusick
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  • Apple Lisa
    ...: Apple's Most Influential Failure] - another version, from the [[Computer History Museum|CHM]]
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  • XENIX
    ===History=== ..._with_unix.shtml Microsoft Short-lived Love Affair with Unix] - A detailed history
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  • ITS DDT Guide
    so that $<n>J can be used to retrace the recent history of job
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  • Screen
    -h lines Set the size of the scrollback history buffer.
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  • The Unix Heritage Society
    [[Category: History]]
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  • TROPIX Manual
    6: Access to the history of the "sh" through the keys of arrows Learn to use the "history" of the "sh". It allows rerun
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  • Multics
    ** [https://multicians.org/history.html History] * [http://web.mit.edu/multics-history/ Multics] - MIT's Multics site
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  • Installing Ultrix 4.0 on SIMH
    Warning creating new history file
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  • BASIC
    * John G. Kemeny, Thomas E. Kurtz, ''Back to BASIC: The History, Corruption, and Future of the Language'', Addison-Wesley, Reading, 1985
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  • BSD
    * [http://roguelife.org/~fujita/COOKIES/HISTORY/3BSD/design.pdf Design and Implementation of the Berkeley Virtual Memory Ex ...Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable] - a crisp, clear history of the BSD effort
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  • Rogue
    ...ogue_have__you_.php The History of Rogue] - an excellent article about the history of rogue
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  • Geos
    ...ent-Operating-System/ GEOS: The Graphical Operating System] - GEOS and its history
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  • Dell UNIX
    Quick Googling doesn’t reveal useful history of Dell UNIX, so here’s my version, a summary of the three major developm * [https://technologists.com/notes/2008/01/10/a-brief-history-of-dell-unix/ xx]
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  • Intel 4004
    ==History== ....org/resources/text/Oral_History/Intel_4004_2/102658187.05.01.acc.pdf Oral History Panel on the Development and Promotion of the Intel 4004 Microprocessor]
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  • VM/370
    ...tp://www.davidsgallery.info/DaveTuttle/Memories/Inside_IBM-DTuttle.html My History in Computing: Inside IBM – 1968 to 1976] - inside VM/370 development (arc
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  • KDF11-A CPU
    ...history/pdp-11/hardware/micronotes/numerical/micronote17.txt LSI-11/23 ECO History] (uNote #017)
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  • C programming language
    * [[Old C Changes]] - some history of the development
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  • FORTRAN
    ==History== * [https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/ History of FORTRAN and FORTRAN II]
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  • 32v 1m spell
    of all output are accumulated in the history file. The stop H=/usr/dict/spellhist: history file
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  • Installing 386BSD on BOCHS
    For more on this part of history read: *http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/history.html
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  • Compiling Dungeon on RT-11
    *[http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/rt/dsk/misc/dunsrc.dsk dunsrc.dsk] >HISTORY
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  • FreeBSD
    ===History===
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  • 1995
    =The year 1995 in computer history=
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  • 1994
    =The year 1994 in computer history=
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  • QNX
    == History ==
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  • Usenet archive
    ...ty mirrors exist. What an incredible loss, of nearly 2 decades of written history. Absolutely tragic. [[Category: History]]
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  • Bug fixes and changes in 4.1bsd
    well as (for history's sake) the old syntax history character and the second for the ^ quick
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  • IBM OS2 1.0 announcement
    needed for system files, such as swap and history files. The amount
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  • Intel 8008
    .../Oral_History/Intel_8008/Intel_8008_1.oral_history.2006.102657982.pdf Oral History Panel on the Development and Promotion of the Intel 8008 Microprocessor]
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  • Inside OS/2
    Chapter 1. History of the Project 1 History of the Project
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  • 1983
    =The year 1983 in computer history=
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  • 1968
    =The year 1968 in computer history=
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  • 1969
    =The year 1969 in computer history=
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  • NORD-1
    * http://www.sintran.com/sintran/history/history.html ...sf/AllWeb/03E4EADBA358FC78C1256A55004648C0?OpenDocument Kongsberg Maritime history]
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  • NORD-5
    * [http://www.sintran.com/sintran/history/history.html Norsk Data history]
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  • Installing Ultrix 4.5 on SIMH
    Warning creating new history file
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  • Motorola
    ...The company created numerous products, but in the context of the Computer History Wiki the most interesting products were produced by the [[semiconductor]] d
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  • ARM
    ...kia had a huge segment of the mobile phone market at the time. The rest is history. (Note: Another [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLSI_Technology source] says
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  • UNIX* System V and 4.1C BSD
    shell (though the syntax is different), plus the history, alias and directory stack features. History and alias allow
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  • KL10
    .../museum/pictures/AIlab/SailFarewell.html SAIL Farewell] - a good thumbnail history
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  • NORD-12
    [[Category:Norsk Data Hardware]][[Category:Norwegian Computer History]]
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  • LINC
    ==History==
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  • DECtape
    ==History==
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  • Meta-stability
    ==History==
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  • Time-sharing
    ==History== * [http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing-memo.html Memorandum to P. M. Morse Proposing Time Sharing]
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  • Disk
    * [http://chmhdd.wikifoundry.com/ Hard Disk Drive History]
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  • Interrupt
    * [https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/interrupts.html History and Overview of Interrupts and Interrupt Systems]
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  • SIMH/Draft
    ...nd as such, is a very important emulator for anyone interested in computer history; in particular, that of [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] systems, as t
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  • QED (text editor)
    * [https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/qed.html An incomplete history of the QED Text Editor] - by Dennis Ritchie
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  • BCPL
    ==History==
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  • Ethernet
    ...ns/catalog/X124.82E Experimental Ethernet transceiver] - at the [[Computer History Museum|CHM]], including a clamped-on vampire tap housing ...ps://lostintransit.se/2012/06/06/the-history-of-ethernet-dix-vs-802-3/ The history of Ethernet – DIX vs 802.3]
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  • Single-level store
    ===History===
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  • Transistor
    ..._p_n_junction_IEEE_spectrum_34_1997.pdf Chapter 6] contains the definitive history of the invention of the transistor * [https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sts-340j-introduction-to-the-history-of-technology-fall-2006/a96089fb1b0343cb358c982a9bb3c072_fox_crystalfire.pd
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  • TOPS-10
    * [https://www.inwap.com/pdp10/tops-history.txt The History of TOPS, or Life in the Fast AC's]
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  • Subroutine
    ==History==
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  • Bitsavers
    ...imarily the work of Al Kossow (who is a Software Curator at the [[Computer History Museum]], although Bitsavers is an independent project). [[Category: History]]
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  • Compatible Time-Sharing System
    ==History== * [https://history.computer.org/pubs/2011-06-ctss.pdf Compatible Time-Sharing System (1961-197
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  • Command processor
    ==History==
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  • Light Emitting Diode
    ==History==
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  • Semiconductor
    ..._p_n_junction_IEEE_spectrum_34_1997.pdf Chapter 6] contains the definitive history of the invention of the transistor * [https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sts-340j-introduction-to-the-history-of-technology-fall-2006/a96089fb1b0343cb358c982a9bb3c072_fox_crystalfire.pd
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  • Internet
    ...b/20190109070004/http://packet.cc/history-files/Brief-History.html A Brief History of the Internet] ...en” Prehistory of European Research Networking] - A wonderfully detailed history of the spread of the Internet in Europe
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  • Emacs editors
    ...istory/blob/sources/docs/Montgomery%20Emacs%20History.txt Montgomery Emacs History] * [https://multicians.org/mepap.html Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation]
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  • WAITS
    ...has an archive of files from [[magnetic tape]] backups, and documents the history of SAIL and WAITS. ==Version history==
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  • LISP
    * [http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP Paul McJones' "History of LISP"] - information and software for historical LISP implementations
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  • Scheme
    * [http://jean.paul.roy.free.fr//JAOO-SchemeHistory-2006public.pdf The History of Scheme]
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  • Chaosnet
    == History ==
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  • ARPANET
    * [http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/history/Mail_Protocol.txt MAIL] ([http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc772.txt here] is ..., Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996 - well researched, and accessibly told, history
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  • TX-0
    ** [http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/tx-0/TX-0_history_1984.txt TX-0 history] ...stream/handle/1721.1/4132/RLE-TR-627-42827671.pdf RLE-TR-627 TX-0 Computer History]
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  • PDP-1
    ....computerhistory.org/pdp-1/ PDP-1 Restoration Project] - at the [[Computer History Museum|CHM]]
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  • Technology Square
    * [https://news.mit.edu/2004/techsquare-0317 MIT leaves behind a rich history in Tech Square]
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  • Xerox PARC
    Although 'personal computers' had a thin but long (if now poorly remembered) history at that point (including the [[LINC]], and [[Augmentation Research Center|A
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  • Xerox Alto
    ...Years Later, We're Still Living in the Xerox Alto's World] - an excellent history from the [[IEEE]]
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  • Punched card
    ...ge.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/history.html A brief illustrated technical history]
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  • SITS
    | MAR and history
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  • Symbolic link
    ==History==
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  • Video terminal
    ** [https://vt100.net/dec/vt_history Meet the Family] - a brief history of [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] VDT's
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  • Mouse
    ==History== ...user-interface How the Graphical User Interface was Invented] - covers the history of the mouse in some detail
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  • Graphical user interface
    ==History==
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  • Whirlwind
    * Kent C. Redmond, Thomas M. Smith, ''Project Whirlwind: The History of a Computer Pioneer'', Digital Press, Bedford, 1980
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  • CADR
    ** [https://tumbleweed.nu/lm-3/history.html Lisp Machine System Release History]
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  • Switching power supply
    ...transistors did] - well-researched column which gives an overview of their history
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  • Real mode
    ==History==
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  • Open source
    ...rticle.php?story=20050327184603969 The Daemon, the GNU, and the Penguin: A History of Free and Open Source]
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  • Atlas
    * Raúl Rojas, Ulf Hashagen, ''The First Computers: History and Architectures''; Frank H. Sumner, "The Atlas Computer"
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  • MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
    ...atory] - marred by snobbery towards LCS' work and organization, but a good history of the split
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  • B programming language
    ...mming Languages conference, Cambridge, Mass., April, 1993; re-printed in ''History of Programming Languages-II'' eds. Thomas J. Bergin, Jr. and Richard G. Gib
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  • UNIBUS parity
    ==History==
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  • CHM
    #Redirect [[Computer History Museum]]
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  • Charles Babbage Institute
    ...does not have a large collection of original artifacts, as the [[Computer History Museum|CHM]] does). ...se the CBI. CBI became a graduate research center in the department of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine of the University in 2018.
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  • Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
    ...edu/~learnest/sailaway.htm SAIL Away] (archived copy) - contains much SAIL history ...org/simple/index-book-simple.html SAILDART] - also contains a good summary history of SAIL
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  • Fabritek Core Memory
    ...s/catalog/102731715 FABRI-TEK Mass Core "Moby" Memory] - at the [[Computer History Museum|CHM]]
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  • Ampex ARM10
    ...ections/catalog/102691296 ARM 10L memory] - ARM-10L unit at the [[Computer History Museum]]
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  • 1948
    ==The year 1948 in computer history==
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  • PC-DOS
    ...of PC-DOS, the story of the individual versions and how they fit into the history of the various PC models and even it's standard and optional hardware. ...the-rise-of-dos-how-microsoft-got-the-ibm-pc-os-contract A rather in-depth history of IBM's acquisition of an operating system from Microsoft]
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  • Systems Concepts
    ...rg/pdp-1/peter-samson/ Peter Samson - PDP-1 Restoration Project - Computer History Museum]
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  • PWB/UNIX
    ...l memos; "Installation of PWB/UNIX Edition 1.0" gives some clues as to PWB history before PWB 1.0
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  • PDP-3
    ...ces/text/Oral_History/Bell_Gordon_1/102702036.05.01.pdf Gordon Bell's oral history], after the PDP-3 was designed on paper, one was 'sold' to the Air Force Ca
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  • DEC engineering drawing numbers
    | MH || Module [[Engineering Change Order|ECO]] History
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  • PDP-7 UNIX
    * [https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/unixhistory An Oral History of Unix] - Lengthy interviews with Thompson, Ritchie, McIlroy, etc<!-- http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/oral-history/ alt copy -->
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  • PLATO
    ...of Cyberculture'', Pantheon, New York, 2017 - A detailed, well-researched history; short of technical detail in some areas, though
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  • CB-UNIX
    ==History==
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  • Advanced Computer Communications
    ...cgi-local/alumni.cgi?company+acc Advanced Computer Communications] - early history and alumni
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  • Datapoint 2200
    ...story.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Poor_Victor/102658337.05.01.pdf Oral History of Victor (Vic) Poor] - contains background to the creation of the 2200 .../Oral_History/Intel_8008/Intel_8008_1.oral_history.2006.102657982.pdf Oral History Panel on the Development and Promotion of the Intel 8008 Microprocessor] -
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  • C. Gordon Bell
    He was influential in the creation of the [[Computer History Museum]]. ...Systems Design], Digital Press, Bedford, 1978 - a detailed and interesting history for DEC's early machines
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  • BLISS
    ...r/cs257/archive/ronald-brender/bliss.pdf The BLISS programming language: a history]
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  • Computer History Museum
    ...oral histories), and educating people in general about computer and their history. ...useum closed, The Computer Museum History Center was re-named to 'Computer History Museum'.
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  • Living Computer Museum
    * [[Computer History Museum]] ** [https://livingcomputers.org/About-LCML/Our-History.aspx About LCM+L: Our History]
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  • Dennis Ritchie
    ...//www.amazon.com/UNIX-History-Memoir-Brian-Kernighan/dp/1695978552 UNIX: A History and a Memoir] - has a brief bio of Ritchie at the end of Chapter 3
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  • VAX-11/750 & VAX-11/751 Revision Control
    3.3 Microcode Revision History 3.4 Module Revision History
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  • Control Data Corporation
    ==History== ...architecture and computer design at Control Data Corporation] - good oral history
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  • Ethernet transceiver
    ...ns/catalog/X124.82E Experimental Ethernet transceiver] - at the [[Computer History Museum|CHM]]; includes a clamped-on vampire tap housing
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  • DEC Ethernet Transceivers
    ...tions/catalog/X1525.98 Early DEC Ethernet transceiver] - at the [[Computer History Museum|CHM]], includes image
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  • VAX-11/730 Revision Control
    control process, (2) document the revision history, and (3) to ** 4.0 11/730 SYSTEM REVISION HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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  • KA650 Revision Control
    | APPENDIX A (History Sheets) .................................... | (2) REVISION HISTORY PAGES...APPENDIX A...
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  • MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
    It is in some sense the product of history going full circle; just as MIT's [[Project MAC]] split into the [[MIT Artif
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  • Ken Thompson
    ...//www.amazon.com/UNIX-History-Memoir-Brian-Kernighan/dp/1695978552 UNIX: A History and a Memoir] - has a brief bio of Thompson at the end of Chapter 2... * [https://history.computer.org/pioneers/pdfs/T/Thompson.pdf Kenneth Thompson] - brief biograp
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  • Bell Laboratories
    ==History==
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  • VAX-11/785 Revision Control
    (1) Description of changes (History Page). This section contains the rev matrix charts and history pages for the
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  • VAX-11/780 & VAX-11/782 Revision Control
    4.0 MODULE REVISION HISTORY.......................11 5.1 Option Revision History
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  • ULTRIX Remote Installation Service
    == History ==
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  • Epsilon
    ** [https://lugaru.com/history.html A History of Epsilon]
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  • Stanford University Design System
    ...uting.clemson.edu/~mark/s1.html S-1 Supercomputer (1975-1988)] - gives the history at the S-1 project
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  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
    * Annie Jacobsen, ''The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency'', Little, Brown an
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  • NEC µPD7220 Graphics Display Controller
    * [https://oguchi-rd.com/7220/Abstract%20History%20of%20GDC%20Development.pdf History of GDC (7220) Development]
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  • CP operating system
    ...arian.com/Melinda/neuvm.pdf VM and the VM Community] - includes a detailed history of CP
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  • General Electric
    ...''General Electric Enters the Computer Business'', [[IEEE]] Annals of the History of Computing, vol.10, no. 1, pp. 74-78, 1988. ...he General Electric Corporation Computer Department''], IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 17, no. 4: Winter 1995, pp. 24-45 (this may contain an e
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  • Sun-1
    ...hics-music-and-art/15/218/615 Sun-1 workstation] - a Sun-at the [[Computer History Museum|CHM]]
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  • Stanford University
    ...stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Stanford Computer Science Department History Wiki]
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  • X Window System
    ...m/larsbrinkhoff/absolutely-not-a-vaxstation100-emulator/issues/1 X version history, prehistory]
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  • The VMS-MicroVMS Merge
    ...MICROVMS merges back into the VMS product, it will pass into the annals of history, but the best features still remain, integrated into the VMS product.
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  • TREK7
    == History ==
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  • Evans and Sutherland
    ...log/102691213 Line Drawing System 2] - in the collection at the [[Computer History Museum|CHM]]
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  • PostScript
    ...PostScript, The Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing] - also contains a history of the work elsewhere that led up to PostScript
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  • Fairchild Semiconductor
    ...irchild Semiconductor'', MIT Press, Cambridge, 2010 - a detailed technical history with many reproductions of original documents
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  • VAX 8500/8530/8550 Revision Control
    | 1-1 - 1-7 History Pages........................................ 3 - 9... | 2-0 85XX System History.................................. 14 |
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  • VAX 8700/8810 VAX 8800/8820N Revision Control
    | 1-1 History Pages........................................ 3-9... | 882BA UNIT REVISION MATRIX HISTORY PAGE...
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  • VAX 8820/8830/8840 Revision Control
    | 1-1 - 1-6 History Pages........................................ 3 - 8... | 3-1 System Hardware History.............................. 15 |
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  • Datapoint
    ...story.org/resources/text/Oral_History/Poor_Victor/102658337.05.01.pdf Oral History of Victor (Vic) Poor] - contains a lot of background to the creation of Dat ...5/102658342-05-01-acc.pdf Datapoint Oral History Panel ] - later Datapoint history
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  • TYMNET
    ...1299/145258/oh412nh.pdf An Interview with Norman Hardy] - covers the early history of TYMNET in some detail ...uterhistory.org/resources/access/text/2017/06/102717167-05-01-acc.pdf Oral History of Ann Hardy] - one of the first technical employees at Tymshare, this ment
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  • Tymshare
    ...the first technical employees at Tymshare, it covers a lot of a the early history ...99/145258/oh412nh.pdf An Interview with Norman Hardy] - mentions the early history of Tymshare
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  • CAL Time-Sharing System
    ....pdf History of the Cal Timesharing System] - technical and organizational history * [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10143281 History of the CAL Timesharing System]
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  • VAX Diagnostic Supervisor
    == VDS History == ...ime requirements, operating instructions, fault detection, and maintenance history, plus explanations of each test’s function and execution flow. The docume
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  • RF35
    ...y.org/collections/catalog/102768242 RF35 in the collection of the Computer History Museum]
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  • ST506 disk interface
    * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST506/ST412 ST506/ST412] - includes a good history of how it came to be a 'de facto' standard * [https://www.redhill.net.au/d/1.php hard drive history - beginings: mfm drives of the 1980s] - a good brief intro
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  • Xerox Graphics Printer
    ...in-time-at-xerox-history/ Flashback Fridays: Looking Back in Time at Xerox History] - covers the LDX (the image of the printer unit shows it looking much like
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  • Augmentation Research Center
    ...try'', Viking Press, 2005 - covers much else, but has good coverage of the history of ARC, and work there
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  • Research Laboratory of Electronics
    * [https://rlewebdev.mit.edu/about/history/ History]
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  • Charles Babbage
    ...Calculating Engines: Being a Collection of Papers Relating to Them; Their History and Construction'', E. and F. N. Spon, London, 1889; re-printed Tomash, Los ...he Quest to Build the First Computer'', Viking, New York, 1991 - excellent history of the Science Museum's project to build an actual Difference Engine, inclu
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  • Notable early computing devices
    ...com/book/9780124916500/a-history-of-computing-in-the-twentieth-century ''A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century''], Academic Press, New York, 1980 * Raúl Rojas, Ulf Hashagen (editors), ''The First Computers: History and Architectures'', MIT Press, Cambridge, 2002
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  • Bell Telephone Laboratories relay computing devices
    ...com/book/9780124916500/a-history-of-computing-in-the-twentieth-century ''A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century''], Academic Press, New York, 1980
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  • Atanasoff-Berry Computer
    ...hn V. Atanasoff, ''Advent of Electronic Digital Computing'', Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 6, Number 3, July 1984 ...ice Rowe Burks, ''Who Invented the Computer? The Legal Battle That Changed History'', Prometheus, Amherst, 2003
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  • Computer
    ...com/book/9780124916500/a-history-of-computing-in-the-twentieth-century ''A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century''], Academic Press, New York, 1980 * Raúl Rojas, Ulf Hashagen (editors), ''The First Computers: History and Architectures'', MIT Press, Cambridge, 2002
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  • ENIAC
    * Raul Rojas, Ulf Hashagen, ''The First Computers: History and Architectures'', MIT Press, Cambridge, 2002 ..., [https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4628499 ''A Trilogy On Errors in the History of Computing''], Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, 1972 - contain
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  • MIT AI lab IO bus interface for GE Datanet 760
    ...in [https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102686867 Computer History Museum's catalog].
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  • Versions of important ITS software
    ...on information below version 688. From then on, comprehensive ITS version history has been recorded in the backup database. See [http://its.pdp10.se/version The history of DDT on the AI lab PDP-6 is somewhat muddled. There first was a non-time
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  • CompuServe
    * [http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/compuserve.txt We Call Them 10's: A Brief History of 36-bit Computing at CompuServe]
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  • Seymour Cray
    ...5714/http://www.cwheroes.org/archives/histories/Cray.pdf Seymour Cray Oral History] * [https://history.computer.org/pioneers/pdfs/C/Cray.pdf Seymour R. Cray] - brief biography at
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  • CompuServe recollections
    ....preterhuman.net/A_Brief_History_of_36-bit_Computing_at_CompuServe A Brief History of 36-bit Computing at CompuServe] the history is, I think, just the progression from the first then second KA10 through s
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  • Kernel process
    ==History== * [http://roguelife.org/~fujita/COOKIES/HISTORY/3BSD/design.pdf Design and Implementation of the Berkeley Virtual Memory Ex
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  • GeoCities
    ...The Making Of, a story of stress and scripting.] - a fascinating real-time history of the salvage effort
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  • TU77 Magnetic Tape Transport
    ...ry.org/collections/catalog/102733547 TU-77 tape drive] - at the [[Computer History Museum|CHM]], includes images
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  • Computer-aided design
    ...1965.pdf Computer-Aided Design's Strong Roots at MIT] - excellent detailed history of early CAD work (mostly in mechanical engineering)
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  • Semi-Automatic Ground Environment
    ...stem_A_Personal_History_1986.pdf ''The SAGE Air Defense System: A Personal History''], MITRE Corporation, Bedford, 1986 ...i-Automatic Ground Environment Air Defense System] - good, fairly detailed history
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  • Seagate Technology
    ...uterhistory.org/resources/access/text/2013/05/102658066-05-01-acc.pdf Oral History of Syed Iftikar] - his time at Seagate is covered on pp. 10-18
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  • Gould Electronics
    ...ld-Electronics-Inc-Company-History.html Gould Electronics, Inc.] - company history
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  • MITRE
    * Robert C. Meisel, John F. Jacobs, ''MITRE, the First Twenty Years: A History of the MITRE Corporation, 1958-1978'', The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, 1979 ...tre/M72-110_The_Early_History_of_the_MITRE_Corporation_Jun72.pdf The Early History of the MITRE Corporation: Its Background, Inception, and First Five Years]
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  • International Computers Limited
    * Martin Campbell-Kelly, ''ICL: A Business and Technical History'', Clarendon, Oxford, 1989
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  • International Computers and Tabulators
    * Martin Campbell-Kelly, ''ICL: A Business and Technical History'', Clarendon, Oxford, 1989 - ICT is covered in Chapters 9 and 10, pp. 193-2
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  • English Electric Computers
    * Martin Campbell-Kelly, ''ICL: A Business and Technical History'', Clarendon, Oxford, 1989 - EEC coverage is scattered throughout; consult ...tps://www.ourcomputerheritage.org/Maincomp/Eel/eec_co.pdf English Electric History]
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  • Centre for Computing History
    ...re for Computing History''', in Cambridge, is the major museum of computer history in the United Kingdom; it was formed in 2007, and opened to the public in 2 * [[Computer History Museum]]
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  • Computer Conservation Society
    The '''Computer Conservation Society''' is a premier British computer history group. It was started in September, 1989, as a Specialist Group of the [[Br * To promote the study of historic computing systems, their use and the history of the computer industry;
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  • GEC Computers
    ...cucumber.demon.co.uk/geccl/19471972/index.html GEC Computers - parentage - history, 1947-1972]
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  • Manchester Baby
    * Simon H. Lavington, ''A History of Manchester Computers'', National Computer Centre, Manchester, 1976 * Raúl Rojas, Ulf Hashagen (editors), ''The First Computers - History and Architectures'', MIT Press, Cambridge, 2000 - the Baby is covered in Pa
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  • Lincoln Laboratory
    ...n, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140828224121/http://www.ll.mit.edu/about/History/MIT_Lincoln_Laboratory_history_book.pdf ''MIT Lincoln Laboratory: Technolog * [https://www.ll.mit.edu/about/history History]
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  • Manchester Mark I
    * Simon H. Lavington, ''A History of Manchester Computers'', National Computer Centre, Manchester, 1976 * Raúl Rojas, Ulf Hashagen (editors), ''The First Computers &mdash; History and Architectures'', MIT Press, Cambridge, 2000 - the Mark I is covered in
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  • Ferranti Mark 1
    * Simon H. Lavington, ''A History of Manchester Computers'', National Computer Centre, Manchester, 1976 * Raúl Rojas, Ulf Hashagen (editors), ''The First Computers &mdash; History and Architectures'', MIT Press, Cambridge, 2000 - the Mark 1 is covered in
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  • Automatic Computing Engine
    * David M. Yates, ''Turing's Legacy: A History of Computing at the National Physical Laboratory 1945-1995'', Science Museu * Harry D. Huskey, ''From ACE to the G-15'', Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 6, No. 4, Oct0ber, 1984, pp. 350-371
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  • Pilot ACE
    * David M. Yates, ''Turing's Legacy: A History of Computing at the National Physical Laboratory 1945-1995'', Science Museu * Harry D. Huskey, ''From ACE to the G-15'', Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 6, No. 4, Oct0ber, 1984, pp. 350-371
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  • DEUCE
    * David M. Yates, ''Turing's Legacy: A History of Computing at the National Physical Laboratory 1945-1995'', Science Museu
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  • Bendix G-15
    * Harry D. Huskey, ''From ACE to the G-15'', Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 6, No. 4, Oct0ber, 1984, pp. 350-371
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  • IAS computer
    ...MIT Press, Cambridge, 1990 - not much technical detail, but a good overall history, and a lot about problem areas the machine was used for ...com/book/9780124916500/a-history-of-computing-in-the-twentieth-century ''A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century''], Academic Press, New York, 1980 -
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  • VAX 8200/8300 Revision Control
    | 1-5 History page................................................ 8... | 1-6 History page continued...................................... 9...
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  • American National Standards Institute
    ** [https://www.ansi.org/about/history About ANSI - ANSI History]
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