Retro-Computing Links

Here be some quickly thrown together retro-computing links.

Museums and Archives

Below are a list of museums with wide collections or at least collections not necessarily specific to a certain hardware platform. The archives listed also contains information about lots of platforms, operating systems and other software.

Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota

Centre for Computing History

Stanford AI Lab WAITS Archive

Obsolete Computer Museum

The Computer History Museum

The Digibarn Computer Museum

Eric Smith's Retrocomputing Links

Karl Kleine's collection of Historic Documents in Computer Science

Bitsavers - Al Kossow's huge document and software archive

Eric S. Raymond's Retrocomputing Museum

[www.old-computers.com]

Erik Klein's collection

The Vintage Computer Festival

Mike Ross's Collection

Blinkenlights Archaeological Institute

Classic computers at Blinkenlights

GUI Timeline

Henry Baker's Archive of Research Papers

Specific Platforms

DEC PDP-10 and PDP-11

Joe Smith's PDP-10 Archive

Marc Crispin's Panda distribution of TOPS-20

The PDP-10 Webring

Tim Shoppa's Archive of PDP-10 and PDP-11 Software

Paul Allen's PDP-10 Archive

Stu Grossman's KX-10 PDP-10 Emulator

Ken Harrenstein's PDP-10 Emulator KLH-10

Bob Supnik's Emulator System SIMH (many platforms)

Björn Victor's notes on getting ITS running on KLH10

Cyber and Cray

The Cray and Cyber Museum

The Cyber1 PLATO Museum

Tom Hunter's CDC 6600 Emulator

IBM S/360, S/370, S/390, z/Series

The Hercules IBM Mainframe Emulator

CBT Tape Archive. Includes MVS version 3.8, VM/CMS release 6, DOS/VS release 34, TSS/370 version 3).

Jay Maynard's collection of PD IBM software. Includes Volker Bandke's Turnkey MVS, if you are so inclined, and Andy Norrie's ready-to-run VM/370 system.

Michael Koehne's instructions on how to install MVS, VM et cetera.

Lisp Machines

MIT CADR Lisp Machine Emulator

Björn's notes on LispM's

Björn's notes on running a CADR emulator (hosted by ITS!)

Microbee

Microbee Software Preservation Project (MSPP). Also hosts Stewart Kay's Microbee emulator.

Operating Systems

Warren Tommey's The Unix Heritage Society

Tom Van Vleck's Multics Archive

Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS)

Dan Murphy's TENEX and TOPS-20 Papers

Unix Seventh Edition Manuals

Programming Languages

HOPL: an interactive Roster of Programming Languages at Murdoch University, Australia.

The Language List - Version 2.4, January 23, 1995. This is a local copy I've had for many years. I don't know if there's still a version that is continously updated. It's useful, nonetheless.

SNOBOL

People

Much information about Edsger Dijkstra at University of Texas.

Dennis M. Ritchie's own homepage at Bell Labs. He keeps a lot of texts and images of historical importance.

Information about computer pioneer Konrad Zuse at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

Mailing Lists & Other Fora

ClassicCmp

ClassicCmp cctech

Postel Center's Computer History List.

Postel Center's Internet History List. Archive.

alt.folklore.computers newsgroup

alt.sys.pdp10 newsgroup

alt.sys.pdp11 newsgroup