Table of Contents
Links - Techinfo
Technical Info HOME Page - David Woodsmall. Informatie over programming, SAN/NAS, Q&A
D116.COM Classic Computers, Chips, &Etc. home of spud, the potato powered webserver
Fravia's archive pages of reverse engineering
Zytrax - Tech Info Stuff met o.a. DNS for Rocket Scientists
Windows & Network troubleshooting tips
HowToNetworking.com, a FREE resource that provides a step by step guide to setup Network, VPN, Remote Access and Internet Sharing.
Marcus J. Ranum
GUID List
Travcom - Travis' Homepage
cat-v
cat -v - Object Oriented Programming is Inherently Harmful
Todd's Sun Microsystems and UNIX site
majix: obsolete stuff
Capacitorlab helps you with the bad capacitor problem.
Network bookcase (archive.org)
ServeTheHome guides for home and small office servers. CPU DB, a complete database of processors for researchers and hobbyists alike.
YouTube - jpkiwigeek owns a *lot* of (older) computer systems, and shows them on YouTube.
AudioKarma.org Home Audio Stereo Discussion Forums > DIY - Tutorial: "Deep Cleaning" An Amplifier
OpenCores is the world’s largest site/community for development of hardware IP cores as open source.
Welcome to the Eyrie eyrie.org is the personal domain of Russ Allbery.
Russ Allbery's Personal Web Pages
Russ Allbery's Software
MikNet Michael Samuel's Website. A collection of his software and research.
vedge.org - Julien This site contains various charts that Julien finds useful in the shop, pictures of some of his work, and miscellaneous stuff in development.
Hypertriton is a company based in Quebec. They design, develop and support free open-source software to serve the public, developer and business markets. They also provide custom-manufactured items, speciality hardware and research materials to customers worldwide. Home of:
- Agar a toolkit for graphical applications.
- FreeSG a compact, cross-platform 3D graphics engine. Mainly used in CAD projects, and is still under development.
- BSDBuild a portable, self-contained build system with support for concurrent building and configure script generation. It is derived from the original 4.4BSD build system.
- Edacious an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) toolkit.
- FabBSD (dead link) a 4.4BSD-based, cross-platform, UNIX-like operating system designed specifically for the computer control of machinery and instrumentation.
- CADtools an open-source computer-aided 3D design (CAD) and manufacturing (CAM) toolkit.
- Vislak is an open-source tool for non-linear video edition and audio multiplexing.
- mgid an advanced management suite for multi-user Unix server arrays.
- mailprocd a high-performance mail delivery, classification and filtering daemon designed to extend the capabilities of MTAs such as postfix and sendmail.
- PerCGI a library for developing persistent, high-performance web applications in C/C++.
santa cruz / bay area geek social scene
santa cruz geek houses
Steuben Technologies provides quality UNIX, Linux and Macintosh consulting services to small and medium sized businesses throughout the United States.
Affero's software project was created to facilitate funding for Free Software and Open Source projects and to facilitate more effective dialogue among groups.
WikiChip is a semantic computer engineering and semiconductor website aimed at documenting past and present electronic systems and technologies as well as general topics, concepts, and methodologies.
Steve's Antique Technology
Steve's Antique Technology - Soldering
Personal sites
Articles/Blogposts
Mark's Blog - systems and graphics cards suverys and overviews
lifehacker - Build a Hackintosh Mac for Under $800
Lost your Windows/Restore CDs?
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX by John Kirch old (1998) article in which NT (4) is compared with free Unix-like systems and comes up short.
Salon - The dumbing-down of programming, part one
Salon - The dumbing-down of programming, part two
Marcus J. Ranum - Who needs an enemy when you can divide and conquer yourself?
Marcus J. Ranum - Stupid About Software
The things that are better left unspoken
a blog by Sander Berkouwer - Active Directory and eDirectory
Linux Hater's Blog - I hate Linux Graphics
The Coming War on General Purpose Computation Cory Doctorow
instructables - Privacy monitor hacked from an old LCD Monitor
Homebrew Cray-1A
Mina Naguib - The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't
Porkrind Dot Org Missives - “An Ancient Piece of Computer Lore in a Place You’d Never Expect” or “Dungeon (Zork) Map in Duplicity”
Porkrind Dot Org Missives - The Core Memory Module from my dad’s homebuilt PDP-11/05
pingdom - IRC is dead, long live IRC
Ken Shirriff's blog - Bitcoin mining on a 55 year old IBM 1401 mainframe: 80 seconds per hash
Rice History Corner - Obsolete Technology: Reel to Reel
RFC
Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Communication Layers (RFC 1122)
Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Application and Support (RFC 1123)
Mailbox names for common services, roles and function (RFC 2142)
Computer history
The Computer History Simulation Project also take a look at their Historical Systems Photographs
Cray-Cyber - “Our work is dedicated to the memory of Seymour Cray, Control Data Corporation, and Cray Research, Inc., and to the history of supercomputing. We serve this task by preserving and exhibiting machines and documents connected with the Cray legacy. Where possible we keep the machines running and publicly accessible free of charge.”
START-UP Albuquerque and the Personal Computer Revolution
PC Authority - Computer History Museum Photo Gallery: weird, fascinating photos including a giant Cray, and a 60Kg hard drive
Rob Landley Computer History research page also Rob Landley - Periodical library
BBS: The Documentary
Vintage Computer Festival, Vintage Computer Festival Europa
Obsolyte
Vintage Computing and Gaming
The Core Memory dedicated to the NCR computers of the 20th Century. Is no more, see archive.org copy.
The Gallery of Old Iron is no more, see archive.org copy
The History of Computing Project
Facts and stories about Antique (lonesome) Computers
Deja Vu - the web as we remember it
Retro-Computing Museum Featuring: 7 CPU families (HP-PA, i386, i960, m68k, NS32k, Sparc, VAX), 9 architectures (Amiga, Annex, Apollo, HP-PA, HP-TX, i386, Sun3, Sun4c, VAX), 8 OS families (AmigaOS, Annex-UX, HP-UX, NetBSD, OpenBSD, SunOS, VxWorks, Windows).
The Corestore - home of ancient computers
Kees's Computer Home
The Digital Dungeon
cyber1.org : : courtesy of VCampus Corporation
MG's Corner
The DigiBarn Computer Museum
Retrocomputing Archive
The Computer Museum of Gerben Ritsema
Johnny Billquist. Look here for some PDP and VAX info.
supervinx.com - Retrocomputers
Frederik Questier - My unix computer collection
flickr - Supercomputing
Remembering Jonathan B. Postel, USC/ISI's Postel Center, RFC 2468 - I REMEMBER IANA.
RFC2555 - 30 Years of RFCs
The Trailing Edge This site is devoted to computing technology which has been left behind by the rapidly advancing Leading Edge of computing. Many interesting and useful systems have been forgotten with the mad rush to stay on the Cutting Edge and maintain the high sales of hardware and software companies
HP Computer Museum
OLD-COMPUTERS.COM: The Museum
BESM-6 Nostalgia Page
Columbia University Computing History - A Chronology of Computing at Columbia University
Bitsavers
The Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island, Inc.
Jay Jaeger's Computer Collection
Paul Pierce's Computer Collection
Neil Franklin's Netizen Anthology Copy
The Living Computer Museum, now closed due to Paul Allen's death. Old Vintage Computing Research - The Living Computers Museum finally isn't. See also: The Interim Computer Museum.
The National Museum of Computing
Commodore Computers pre-Amiga Commodore Computer History.
A Brief History of Computing - Complete Timeline
A Historical Timeline of Computer Graphics and Animation
M. Kraemer's Computer collection
The AN/FSQ-7 on TV and in the Movies
Coprolite Homebrew Computer Construction and Electronics Z-80 and 8048.
mikestirling.co.uk - BBC Micro on an FPGA
Slate - The Book-Writing Machine: What was the first novel ever written on a word processor?
NeXT Computer pictures of a restored NeXT Cube.
DEC, Televideo, Commodore, Apple vintage computing
John Elliott's homepage “Most (all?) of the pages in this site are dedicated to computers and/or operating systems which unkind people might describe as obsolete.”
Zusie - My Relay Computer
PDP-11/70 CPU core and SoC :: Overview The project contains a complete PDP-11 system: a 11/70 CPU with memory management unit, but without floating point unit, a basic set of UNIBUS peripherals (DL11, LP11, PC11, RK11/RK05), and last but not least a cache and memory controllers for SRAM and PSRAM. The design is FPGA proven, runs currently on Digilent S3BOARD , Nexys2 and Nexys3 boards and boots 5th Edition UNIX and 2.11BSD UNIX.
Monday, June 17, 1963: ASCII, the ASCII table.
Doug Enbelbart Institute - Publications (Summary)
The National Museum of Computing - The world's oldest original working digital computer
Historic Documents in Computer Science collected by Karl Kleine
BBC News - Museum switches on historic computer via Slashdot - Edsac Goes Live, At UK's National Museum of Computing.
Wired - How the World’s First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap about ENIAC. Via Slashdot - How the World's First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap
RAMAC 350 Restoration Web Site
Fast Company - How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create The PC Industry talks about Vector Graphic. Via: Slashdot - How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry
Vintagecomputer.net
Steve's Computer Collection
VAXBARN, Camiel Vanderhoeven's computer collection, located in a 200-year old farmhouse in the tiny village of Netterden, in the east of the Netherlands, on the border with Germany.
David Pitts' Home Page
retrotechnology.com
Bryan's Old Computers
Rainer Siebert's vintage computers
IBM 51xx PC Family Computers is intended to be a reference for computer-savvy people who are already familiar with the IBM 51xx PC family of vintage computers.
This website contains information that ranges from basic to very technical.
DMS-100.net
Time-Line Computer Archive.
dustyoldcomputers.com PDP-8, PDP-11, PDP-12, and others.
By Blogger - Convergent MightyFrame:
AT&T Unix PC
Convergent Technologies IWS & AWS Preserving & Restoring Convergent Technologies IWS & AWS Systems.
Convergent Technologies MightyFrame Dedicated to the restoration and preservation of Convergent Technologies MightyFrame computers, components and systems.
YouTube - Big Iron: The Mainframe Story Part 1 of 5 - The 1960's
YouTube - Big Iron: The Mainframe Story Part 2 of 5 - The 1970's
YouTube - Computing Aladdin's Cave - Computerphile Video tour of the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge.
YouTube - 1966 Computing Power (Elliott 903) - Computerphile a demo of the Elliott 903.
YouTube - Mainframes and the Unix Revolution - Computerphile and YouTube - EXTRA BITS - Behind the scenes on Computerphile - Computerphile
ALTEXXA.NET offers usernet, irc, hotline, gopher, ftp and software downloads.
Higher Intellect is a World Wide Web server hosting a searchable database of over 750,000 text files on a variety of subjects. We also host a server running on the Hotline and KDX protocols featuring a vast collection of antique software, obscure operating systems, and open source software.
High Intellect Vintage Wiki
Higher Intellect - Technology Museum
BoffoMac Hotline server.
Paul's Old Crap
Articles:
The ancient tags museum
Safari on Windows? Apple and the Origins of the Web
The Mother of All Demos - 150 years ahead of its time
IEEE Spectrum - 25 Microchips That Shook the World
The Register - Nuke plants to rely on PDP-11 code UNTIL 2050!, see Vintage Computer Forums - Greetings from GE Canada! and Slashdot - PDP-11 Still Working In Nuclear Plants - For 37 More Years
The Internet Archive Software Collection > Historical Software Collection
WIRED - Before the iPad, There Was the Honeywell Kitchen Computer
Computer History Museum - Xerox PARC Alto filesystem archive
The Retrocomputing Museum is dedicated to programs that induce sensations that hover somewhere between nostalgia and nausea — the freaks, jokes, and fossils of computing history. The exhibits include many languages, some machine emulators, and a few games.
From David L. Mills, PhD, Professor:
The Fuzzball
Anatomy of a Hollerith Card
Data Concentrator Project Check the teddy bear.
Michigan Terminal System
Fast Company - Who Needs GPS? The Forgotten Story of Etak's Amazing 1985 Car Navigation System via Slashdot - How Etak Built a Car Navigation System In 1985
Sell My Retro is a trading website aimed at the retro computer and vintage electronics collectors and traders.
DVQ.COM home to a collection of older electronics:
Tekmuseum.com dedicated to the DVST based Tektronix computers and terminals.
Vintage Computer Federation - VCF
VCF - Forum
Computer-Archiv - Inhaltsverzeichnis / Index an index of old computers by manufacturer.
Starring the Computer is a website dedicated to the use of computers in film and television. Each appearance is catalogued and rated on its importance (ie. how important it is to the plot), realism (how close its appearance and capabilities are to the real thing) and visibility (how good a look does one get of it). Fictional computers don't count (unless they are built out of bits of real computer), so no HAL9000 - sorry.
Dedicated to "older" computer technology
The Armory hosting:
- Deep Thought which is an Internet-connected open-access (for Santa Cruz residents) system running SCO UNIX
- Cameron Kaiser's webpage who in turn hosts the Floodgap Systems' website as his “personal repository for information technology research, historical computing research, and open source software (especially for retrocomputing and information retrieval technologies); as a testbed for multiple hardware and networking projects; my work in medicine and life sciences; and as a resting place for my other non-technical collections and exhibits.”
HyperLink 2.5e Document Viewer and Web Browser for the Commodore 64/128. screenshots
Museums
Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA, USA.
The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, England.
Bonami SpelComputer Museum in the Netherlands.
York University Computer Museum
Videos
YouTube - IBM System 390 Computer room circa 1990
YouTube - Very Old Data Center 1992
YouTube - Computer room walking tour, 1992 on 2021-11-11, by NSF NCAR Archives.
YouTube - Scientific Computing Division facility tour, 1987 on 2023-11-17, by NSF NCAR Archives.
YouTube - Clemson Computer Center Tour 1980 480p on 2013-10-17, by Don Fraser.
YouTube - Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe “Connor Krukosky is an 18-year-old college student with a hobby of collecting vintage computers. One day, he decided to buy his own mainframe…an IBM z890. This is his story.” He got a job at IBM afterwards: YouTube - The "Mainframe Kid".
YouTube - 1987 Ardent Titan Graphics Supercomputer by Camiel Vanderhoeven.
YouTube - Capturing video from an Ardent Titan by Camiel Vanderhoeven.
YouTube - The Network: CelNet by CelGenStudios.
YouTube - Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2019 - The Other Sights and Sounds by CelGenStudios walks around the Living Computers: Museum+Labs in Seattle during Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2019. Several mainframes are shown near the end of the video.
YouTube - Jim Austin Computer Collection - A Tour
YouTube - Computer Collection Prof. Jim Austin's computer collection. (From the BBC programme “Collectaholics” Tx 16/4/15).
YouTube - The National Museum of Computing Tour (2011-02-18)
YouTube - Visit to: The National Museum of Computing by Julian Ilet (2015-02-19)
YouTube - Richard Thomson's vintage computer collection by CuriousMarc (2016-11-17)
YouTube - Bob Rosenbloom's Vintage Computer Collection by CuriousMarc (2017-08-31)
Computer History Museum oral history series:
tnmoc The National Museum of Computing (Bletchley Park Estate, England):
- Colossus playlist.
Bryan Cantrill (ex Sun Microsystems, ex Joyent, working at Oxide Computer since 2019):
- YouTube - Bryan Cantrill - Andreessen's Corollary: Ethical Dilemmas in Software Engineering by CraftHub Events. Published May 17, 2019.
- YouTube - No Moore Left to Give: Enterprise Computing after Moore's Law by InfoQ. Published August 26, 2019.
- YouTube - Bryan Cantrill talks Sun Microsystems, DTrace, and Shouting in the Data Center by LightStep. Published April 9, 2020.
- YouTube - Stanford Seminar - The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer by stanfordonline. Published March 4, 2020.
- YouTube - Zebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017 by Code & Supply. Published on Oct 23, 2017.
- YouTube - Bryan Cantrill on ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache [PWL SF] 10/2017 by PapersWeLove. Published on Oct 17, 2017.
- YouTube - Running Aground: Debugging Docker in Production by Bryan Cantrill. Published on Jan 17, 2018. Talk originally given at DockerCon '15.
- YouTube - LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos by USENIX. Published on Dec 15, 2011.
Cheat Sheets
Added Bytes - Cheat Sheets
Cheatography is a cheat sheet generator and repository where you can build and share cheat sheets and quick reference material for your hobbies, home, holidays or work.
Hacking
Phrack Magazine en oude Phrack mirror
How To Become A Hacker by Eric Steven Raymond