Computer History 1 Books * {link:Electronic Brains|http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0309096308/sr=1-1/qid=1155929447/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-1731758-1104132?ie=UTF8&s=books} plus the {link:BBC Radio program|http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/electronicbrains.shtml} on which it is based. * {link:A Quarter Century of UNIX|http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201547775/sr=1-1/qid=1155929585/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-1731758-1104132?ie=UTF8&s=books} * {link:Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists|http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0387982698/sr=1-1/qid=1155929625/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-1731758-1104132?ie=UTF8&s=books} * {link:Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry|http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556152116/qid=1075821703/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_0_1/701-8806431-7292345} * {link:History of Programming Languages|http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201895021/ref=nosim/102-1731758-1104132?n=283155} * {link:Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer|http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1583482660/sr=1-5/qid=1156183324/ref=sr_1_5/102-1731758-1104132?ie=UTF8&s=books} * {link:Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age|http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0887309895/sr=1-1/qid=1156185699/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-1731758-1104132?ie=UTF8&s=books} 1 Museums * {link:The Virtual Museum of Computing|http://vmoc.museophile.com/} * {link:The University of Virginia Computer Museum|http://www.cs.virginia.edu/brochure/museum.html} * {link:Digibarn|http://www.digibarn.com/} * {link:Computer History Museum|http://www.computerhistory.org/} 1 Links * Vannevar Bush's famous essay {link:As We May Think|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think} * {link:The Early History of Smalltalk|http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html} by Alan Kay * {link:History of Java|http://ei.cs.vt.edu/book/chap1/java_hist.html} * {link:History of Lisp|http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/lisp.html} by John McCarthy * {link:History of Lisp|http://community.computerhistory.org/scc/projects/LISP/} * {link:The Future & History of the User Interface|http://www.macobserver.com/columns/devilsadvocate/2006/20060815uis.shtml} - was {link:covered on Slashdot|http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/16/212218} * {link:What's The Greatest Software Ever Written?|http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=191901844} - {link:covered on Slashdot|http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/16/0125204&from=rss} * {link:The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time|http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126692-page,14-c,systems/article.html} * {link:GUI Gallery|http://www.guidebookgallery.org/guis} * {link:Desktop UI History|http://www.digibarn.com/stories/desktop-history/bushytree.html} * {link:Design Principles Behind Smalltalk|http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/byte_aug81/design_principles_behind_smalltalk.html} * {link:Unix Wars|http://www.livinginternet.com/i/iw_unix_war.htm} * {link:Many PARC and Smalltalk history related links|http://www.squeakland.org/school/HTML/draper/draper8.htm} * {link:augmenting human intellect|http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/Archive/ResearchCenter1968/ResearchCenter1968.html} by DOUGLAS C. ENGELBART and WILLIAM K. ENGLISH * {link:Why Alto? Butler Lampson's Historic 1972 Memo|http://www.digibarn.com/friends/butler-lampson/index.html} * {link:Bob Bemer Computer History Notes|http://www.trailing-edge.com/~bobbemer/HISTORY.HTM} 1 Videos * Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols {link:Part 1|http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987},{link:Part 2|http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987_2} * {link:Computer History Videos|http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject:%22Technology:%20Computers:%20History%22} 1 People * {link:Douglas Engelbart|http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/englebart.html} - {link:papers|http://www.bootstrap.org/institute/bibliography.html}, {link:Interactive Timeline|http://www.roundworldmedia.com/ednic/cst595/timeline/timeline5_18_5.swf} * {link:Dennis Ritchie|http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/} - lots of great historic links about Unix * Maurice Wilkes: {link:1|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilkes}, {link:2|http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Wilkes.html} * {link:Butler Lampson|http://research.microsoft.com/Lampson/default.htm} - also see {link:systems|http://research.microsoft.com/Lampson/default.htm} and {link:publications|http://research.microsoft.com/Lampson/Publications.html} 2008-02-28 09:59:48.615 2006-08-18 15:50:04.022