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Vintage Computers Collection by John Shadbolt.

Free Online IBM Reference Manuals for Mainframe Cobol, Batch Processing, Online Processing, Tools, Editors, Utilities, Databases and Messages IBM Mainframe Manuals for VS COBOL II, IBM COBOL, Enterprise COBOL, MVS JCL, OS/390 JCL, z/OS JCL, TSO, ISPF, SDSF, DFSORT, ICETOOL, CLIST, REXX, PL/I, CICS/ESA, CICS/TS, DB2, DB2/UDB, IMS, SQL Codes, Abend Codes, ErrorCodes, System Messages, SOC errors, CICS Abends etc.

he Doug Engelbart Institute* was conceived by Doug Engelbart to further his lifelong career goal of boosting our ability to better address complex, urgent problems. As he saw it, both the rate and the scale of change are increasing very rapidly worldwide, and we as a people must get that much faster and smarter at anticipating, assessing, and responding to important challenges collectively if we are to stay ahead of the curve, and thrive as a planet. In other words, we must get faster and smarter at boosting our Collective IQ.

Computer Companies United Against Terrorism (CCUAT) was formed by the American Computer Science Association Inc. one month after the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. First formally proposed by the office of the United States Attorney General John Ashcroft and followed up on by successive Defense and Justice Department liaison, the membership rose from the original 200 to encompass in excess of 13,000 computer and technology firms in North America, the Pacific Rim, Asia and Europe. CCUAT has consistently provided itself as an information resource and action committee in support of formal commercial risk assessment and threat assessment programs between technology companies and the United States and NATO's ongoing efforts to counter International Terror Groups.

The ACSA: an organization devoted to bringing about a change for the better. We are the programmers, scientists, hardware designers, communications professionals, system engineers. Our mission: to improve the quality of life on Earth for all its peoples.

CODEBREAKER is being presented to audiences across the U.S. using a unique, new distribution model called “theatrical on demand”. This grassroots model puts the decision-making power in the hands of moviegoers, guaranteeing the film’s screening in any community where there is sufficient interest.

The platohistory.org website is the home of the PLATO History Foundation and the archive for information about the history and significance of the PLATO computer system and its online community. The Foundation's principal focus is to advance the public awareness of the history, significance, and importance of the PLATO computer system and its online community, and to tell the story of the people who designed, built, and used the system. The PLATO system was created in 1960 at the University of Illinois. Initially it ran as a one-terminal system connected to the ILLIAC computer. By 1963, the system was running on a CDC 1604 with multiple simultaneous users. By 1972, the system had expanded to run a thousand simultaneous users on a CDC CYBER mainframe. Control Data Corporation began marketing PLATO commercially in 1976, resulting in PLATO system installations in dozens of cities around the world. Many of these systems were interconnected, enabling email and remote logins through the network. For nearly ten years, there were more users on PLATO than there were on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.

This site is dedicated to the memory of William Seward Burroughs (1870-1904) and the adding machine industry he helped to create. The objective of this site is to provide information for collectors, both dedicated and casual, about the history of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company and it's products.

A celebration of old calculators showing the evolution from mechanical calculator to pocket electronic calculator Featuring - Mechanical & early electronic desk calculators. Strange hand-held calculators. Articles, photographs, and databases from the archives of the International Association of Calculator Collectors. Information and photographs for those interested in the history of technology. British and sterling currency calculators.

The illustrations following show some of the labels and logos that have been found on Bell Punch machines in Australia. The serial numbers and patent lists on the nameplates are useful for dating the machines.