Computer History

Books

• Electronic Brains plus the BBC Radio program on which it is based.
• A Quarter Century of UNIX
• Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists
• Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry
• History of Programming Languages
• Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer
• Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

Museums

• The Virtual Museum of Computing
• The University of Virginia Computer Museum
• Digibarn
• Computer History Museum

Links

• Vannevar Bush's famous essay As We May Think
• The Early History of Smalltalk by Alan Kay
• History of Java
• History of Lisp by John McCarthy
• History of Lisp
• The Future & History of the User Interface - was covered on Slashdot
• What's The Greatest Software Ever Written? - covered on Slashdot
• The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time
• GUI Gallery
• Desktop UI History
• Design Principles Behind Smalltalk
• Unix Wars
• Many PARC and Smalltalk history related links
• augmenting human intellect by DOUGLAS C. ENGELBART and WILLIAM K. ENGLISH
• Why Alto? Butler Lampson's Historic 1972 Memo
• Bob Bemer Computer History Notes

Videos

• Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols Part 1,Part 2
• Computer History Videos

People

• Douglas Engelbart - papers, Interactive Timeline
• Dennis Ritchie - lots of great historic links about Unix
• Maurice Wilkes: 1, 2
• Butler Lampson - also see systems and publications