COMPUTER HISTORY ORGANIZATIONS AND MUSEUMS
- History of Computing in Ukraine - the International Charity Foundation for History and Development of Computer Science and Technique.
- Bletchley Park, the war-time home of the codebreakers and the site of the development of the Colossus.
- The Association for History and
Computing, an organization dedicated to the use of computers in historical
research.
- The new Computer Museum in Paderborn, Germany.
- The Computer History Association of
California (CHAC).
- The Computer Museum of America
The Museum of HP Calculators.
- The 50th Anniversary of the
unveiling of ENIAC site. As part of the activities surrounding this
event, Prof. Jan van der Speigel led a group creating "ENIAC
on a chip".
We are going to be watching carefully for the
Museum of Classic Computers page currently under construction in Japan.
- The COMPUTER CONSERVATION SOCIETY of
the British Computer Society. The British
Computer Conservation Society also has an ftp site which is very interesting.
- The Science Museum,
Kensington, UK.
The
home page of Hal Layer, San Francisco State University, contains links
to his collection of
classic computers, classic video games, and landmark calculators, updated
continually. Hal calls this the "Mind Machine Web Museum". (this
has two links on this page -- as a museum and as an archive).
- There is
also a web page for Calculating Machines
by Erez Kaplan.
- A Virtual Museum of Computing
with an emphasis on the history of computing in Great Britain (basically
a large collection of links similar to this page) is maintained by Johnathon
Bowen, Reading University.
- A searchable, browsable, Virtual
Museum of Computing was built by students at Virginia Tech in Spring
1996. We anticipate moving this site to another machine over the summer
of 1996.
- The HP Museum.
- The timeline from the Microsoft Museum.
Last updated 99/11/02
© J.A.N. Lee, 1998, 1999.