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A draft historical preservation of John Backus's functional programming languages, including context and materials from his research project.
An article highlighting the often-overlooked contributions of women who worked on the computers used in the Apollo space missions.
The Museum of the Human Web is a collection of artifacts from the pre-AI era of internet and web creation, celebrating human ingenuity. Proceeds from the sweepstakes benefit the Internet Archive and Computer History Museum.
A retrospective on Apricot Computers, a British PC maker known for shipping the first 486-based PC and designing/manufacturing in the UK, as explored in a BBC documentary series.
A blog post exploring the history of the Alaska server brand, a Mexican computer brand from the late 1990s and early 2000s, discovered during a teardown of a failed 2U rackmount server.
The PDP-11 minicomputer, introduced in 1970, was highly influential in computing history, helping to birth UNIX and the C programming language. This article provides an overview of its architecture and impact.
An exhibit chronicles the computer hobby movement in Canada from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s, focusing on the Toronto Region Association of Computer Enthusiasts (TRACE) and its role in bringing personal computing into Canadian homes.
The Internet Archive has digitized and made available the first issue of BYTE magazine from September 1975, covering early microcomputer hardware, software, and the emerging personal computer revolution including topics like microprocessor selection, assembly language, and the Altair computer.