A research center at the University of Minnesota dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of computing and information processing.

Timeline of microcomputers from the development of the microprocessor in the 1960s through to the present day.

Non-profit corporation, safeguards and organizes the history of electronic computing, internationally, nationally, and in California. They collect and archive hardware, software, and documents.

Pictures of many of the pioneering computers.

Focuses exclusively on the history of computing. Located in Mountain View, California. Search the collection, illustrated timeline, online exhibits and select images from the collection, "This Day in History," curator's choice, and the Hall of Fellows (awards for contributions to computing).

Comprehensive list of links to the best computer industry history resources that can currently be found on the 'Net

A project to create the definitive list of the 1,000 key innovations and events in the last 1,000 years of information technology.

A collection of web resources sorted alphabetically. Topics include the Abacus, Eniac, Charles Babbage and Bill Gates.

The Jargon File (AKA, _The New Hacker's Dictionary_) is an essential repository of computer historical information.

A virtual museum containing historical information on computers and computer facilities in the USSR. Includes descriptions of computers, their characteristics, pictures, and personalities.

An online magazine devoted to the history of all antique personal computers that existed since the 1970's It is sectioned by brands or types of personal computers.

Covers the earliest ways of encoding data up to the cards used in voting systems today.

Writings on computers, the early online world, and the Internet, dating from 1992 to 2000.

Silicon Valley -- San Francisco Bay Area -- background, trends and forecast

Detailed information including early pioneers and companies, archives, languages, and networking from the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.

Offers a detailed timeline on the history of computer. Sections include hardware, software, pioneers and references.

Lecture presented by Michelle A. Hoyle explaining how computers and computing science arose from using sticks with notches for counting, to the massive explosion of personal computers in the 1980s.

Historical survey from Babbage onward; by B. Jack Copeland from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Pictures, documents, and advertisements of classic computers from the 1970's and 1980's.

by Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of computing; includes Babbage, Turing, von Neumann, Engelbart, PARC, Kay, and Atari.

New updated edition from MIT Press, with new interviews of historic characters.

Bios, an interactive game, and a Q&A forum trace the birth of the personal computer at this PBS companion site.