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History of Computing Hardware
Website entry on Wikipedia of the history of computing hardware
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Computer Software
Wikipedia entry for computer software
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Organized Computing Museums
IEEE listing of organized museums
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Yahoo Directory of Computers and Internet History
Computers and Internet History
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Historic Documents in Computer Science
Listing of various historic documents
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Fachhochschule Jena Fachbereich Grundlagenwissenschaften Haus 1, Zimmer 01.-1.16 (Souterrain)
European Virtual Computer Museum
European Museum on Computer Science and Technology: Development of Computer Science and Technologies in Ukraine. Brief History
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Volodymyrsky,45a
Kyiv
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MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)
MAME's website provides information about the organization, its history, legalist guidelines that MAME follows and asks its users to respect, a "Contact" page that provides a form for contacting MAME staff, resources for software developers, ROM images and "MAME-focused Sites," MAME's webpage providing source code and binary package new releases, updates and previous releases as well as classic videogames/ROMs for downloading, and documentation information (e.g., explanations for why some of the sites video games don't work, building and writing information for developers, etc.,) and a link to numerous "News" webpages containing the aforementioned information and more.
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MAME's website "documents the hardware and software of arcade games" from the 1970s on (excerpted from the Charles Babbage Institute's website). MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with images of the original arcade game's ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce that game as faithfully as possible on a more modern general-purpose computer. MAME can currently emulate several thousand different classic arcade video games from the late 1970s through the modern era.... MAME is strictly a non-profit project. Its main purpose is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines. This is done both for educational purposes and for preservation purposes, in order to prevent many historical games from disappearing forever once the hardware they run on stops working... All of MAME's source code is either our own or freely available" (excerpted from MAME's website).
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Från matematikmaskin till IT
This site has several autobiographies from Swedish IT-pioneers and the visitor can contribute with their own story. The site has also several links to interviews, witness seminars and more autobiographies with IT-historical content. The site is in Swedish.
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Tekniska Museet (Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology)
This site has numerous transcripts from Interviews with Swedish IT-pioneers as well as short memoirs from the public about how they have used and worked with computers during the period 1950-1980. The site has also transcripts from 47 witness seminars with Swedish IT-pioneers. The site is in Swedish, but all the transcripts has english abstracts.
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Museivägen 7
Stockholm
SwedenNational Museum of American History's (NMAH's) - Computer History Collection
Users access a brief description of the Computer History Exhibit, which features 900 artifacts, a collections of the exhibit's theme, a pictoral sample of its artifacts, and a description of each one, a more specific discussion of the artifacts on exhibit, downloadable reference materials (pdf files), which includes one documentary history and one virtual tour of the "'Monticello Memoirs,' a 1996 gathering at Monticello of Pioneers of the Information Age," and transcripts of "oral and video interviews...[of innovators] in the development of modern communications and computers" (excerpted from NMAH's Division of Information Technology and Communications Computer History Collection website).
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The Division's Computer History Collection website is an archival resource not a service provider. THE ON SITE EXHIBIT HAS BEEN TAKEN DOWN. "The Division of Information Technology and Communications dedicates its collections and scholarship to a broader understanding of information technologies and their role in American history. Staff of the division manage collections, conduct research, and produce publications and other educational products in the history of science, technology, and society related to all aspects of information technology and communications" (excerpted from NMAH's Division of Information Technology and Communications website).
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