Retro-tech & Retro-computing computing, history of computing ------------------------------------------------------------ https://www.acms.org.au/ Australian Computer Museum Society Our Motto: ?Control-Alt-Preserve http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum.php Vintage computer forums http://vcfed.org/wp/ Vintage Computer Federation is a user group for people who collect and restore historic computers http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?7-Marketplace CCTALK --> http://www.classiccmp.org/ ClassicCmp - enthusiasts of classic computer hardware, software, and docs. http://www.classiccmp.org/lists.html cctalk http://www.classiccmp.org/cctalk.html on & off-topic posts members:~650 Posts:50-100 per day cctech http://www.classiccmp.org/cctech.html on-topic only members:~150 Posts:50-75 per day VINTHP --> https://groups.io/g/VintHPcom/topics ============Other mail lists========================= comp.os.vms, comp.sys.dec, comp.sys.dec.micro newsgroups the TUHS mailing list -------------- http://www.computermuseum.org.uk Jim Austin's collection http://bradhodge.ca/blog/?p=1186 Brad's Blog - Vintage computer mania - Osborne 1 http://www.smecc.org/ Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation http://www.hpmuseum.net/index.php HP Museum http://folklore.org Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Swedish_Campground.txt http://www.bitsavers.org/ Sources of information on obsolete computers and electronics http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ Tons of info, sales material, service data, schematics of old computers Some testgear and semiconductor data in there as well. https://museum.syssrc.com/home/ System | Source computer museum https://museum.syssrc.com/category/software/ in-browser simulations of old PC software. http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/index.htm Daves Old Computers http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/systems.htm http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm Disk/Software Image Archive & resources http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/ http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/vintage-radio-collection/ http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/richard-thomson%27s-vintage-computer-collection/ http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/ http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum http://www.the-liberator.net/site-files/retro-games/hardware/index.htm retro teardowns http://gunkies.org/wiki/Main_Page the Computer History Wiki http://www.glitchwrks.com/2017/08/01/gw-48t02-1 SUN SPARC nvram rebuild page http://www.obsolyte.com/sunFAQ/faq_nvram.html More on SUN SPARC http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/megaprocessor/25/ Anyone interested in valve computing should check out the EDSAC recreation project at TNMOC: http://www.tnmoc.org/special-projects/edsac You could always take a tour of the Vacuum Tube Supercomputing Center (VTSC): http://www.ominous-valve.com/vtsc.html http://www.leapsecond.com/ dedicated to precise Time & Frequency https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts time-nuts -- Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement http://www.decadecounter.com/vta/tubepage.php?item=33 The Vintage Technology Association -- Solid State Displays http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/vintage-displays-first-introduced-in-market/ http://www.glennsmuseum.com/ Glenn’s Computer Museum via http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/t73036/ http://www.cpushack.com/ The CPU Shack of microprocessor history and information http://www.cpu-world.com http://oldcomputers.net/ http://www.computerhistory.org/ (Tourist/student level) http://www.xs4all.nl/~rimmer/ Stefan's Old Computer Stuff http://www.fwtunesco.org/musi/ring.html Computer Museums and RetroComputing Culture WebRing http://mo5.com/RING/ring.htm The Computers, Videogames and Arcade Collector's Ring Homepage http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=252 http://www.oldcomputermuseum.com http://www.digibarn.com/ http://www.mdgx.com/w31toy.htm Windows 3.1 stuff! http://www.trailingedge.com http://www.machine-room.org http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Rescuing_Floppy_Disks http://www.parse.com/~museum/pdp-common/books.html http://www.chd.dyndns.org/pdp8/ DEC enthusiast site http://hampage.hu/pdp-11/main.html#lista DEC PDPx history http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/ http://www.cathodecorner.com/index.html Nixies! & the CRT Clock! http://wps.com/projects/decimal-tubes/index.html Nixie history http://wps.com/projects/index.html http://wps.com/projects/LGP-21/ http://foldoc.org/foldoc.cgi?The+story+of+Mel,+a+Real+Programmer http://foldoc.org/ free on-line dictionary of computing http://www.retrocomputing.net http://www.vintage-computer.com http://retrocalculator.com/software/ http://www.vintagecalculators.com/index.html http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wolff/calculators/Egli/Egli.htm mechanical & early calculators http://wiki.oldos.org/Downloads/MSDOS http://www.magrundke.de/hypertxt/welcome.html an 'old computer' museum http://www.seasip.info/VintagePC/index.html Vintage PCs http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/ibmpc/ Chronology of IBM Personal Computers http://www.datamath.org/Album_Sci.htm History of TI calculators http://artifaxbooks.com/fsusmilkeys.htm Antique morse code keys & bugs. http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/ice/s16b.htm Integrated Circuit Engineering Collection !!! http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/index2.htm http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi/525HDMOD.htm Let HD 5,25" FDDs operate at 300 rpm instead of 360 rpm http://www.oldskool.org/ Welcome to The Oldskool PC, a website dedicated to old PC gaming-related nostalgia and resources. http://www.ibmjunkman.com/IBMJunkmanPortal/ 5 collections. They cover punch cards, hardware, china, desk paraphernalia and documents. http://www.dimka.com/daily/external-pages/spies.com-~aek-orphanage.html Minicomputer Orphanage http://www.royalsignals.org.uk/ Vintage wireless. Manuals, etc. http://www.megacycles.co.uk/ http://www.kilocycles.co.uk/ http://antiqueradios.com/ http://www.pagetable.com/ http://www.pagetable.com/?p=401 Measuring the Entropy of the MOS 6502 CPU http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html The Visual 6502 http://www.arcfn.com/2013/01/a-small-part-of-6502-chip-explained.html overflow flag http://ascii.textfiles.com Jason Scott's weblog of computer history. http://www.msarnoff.org/6809/ building a 6809 board in 2010 http://www.folklore.org/index.py History of the original Macintosh http://www.rewindmuseum.com/betamax.htm A museum of vintage consumer electronics http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simulator.html Reversing Sinclair's amazing 1974 calculator hack - half the ROM of the HP-35 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6302364 Discussion http://ibm-1401.info/#Unit-Record-Equipment http://studieverzameling.utwente.nl/ http://studieverzameling.utwente.nl/documents/Sonology%20Analog%20Studio.jpg http://studieverzameling.utwente.nl/documents/OpenHuis.jpg http://studieverzameling.utwente.nl/documents/CSV_apparatuurverkoop.jpg http://www.cryptomuseum.com/burst/r014d/index.htm ----Retro Gaming---------- http://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/Main_Page ----CPU collections--- http://demin.ws/blog/english/2012/12/24/my-i8080-collection/ 8080 chip collection http://www.idb.me.uk/sunhillow/8080.html 8080/8085 CPU Exerciser http://www.cpu-world.com/links/ http://www.abc-cpu.com/ http://www.arcade-museum.com/manuals/manuals_videogame.php video game doc, incl schematics. http://www.acms.org.au/ Australian Computer Museum Society http://www.dtjcd.vmsresource.org.uk/ The complete Digital Technical Journals. 383 MB total. Found via: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2013/may-ware/ http://www.dtjcd.vmsresource.org.uk/pdfs/dtj_v02-04_1990.pdf !!!!!! http://www.wps.com/Projects/index.html http://www.cryptomuseum.com http://tinymicros.com/wiki/HP_1630G http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55 Peets utils & the infinitely profitable utility go.com http://www.hp260.net/ The HP 260 & HP 250 Preservation Project Chip & CPU die photos --------------------- http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/8008-exposed-(hackaday-post)/ http://www.righto.com/2016/12/die-photos-and-analysis-of_24.html The Intel 8008 Analog computers ---------------- http://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/home-brew-analog-computer-system/30/ http://analogmuseum.org/english/ 90% of my knowledge on the operation of analog computers comes from stuff downloaded from analogmuseum.org. Download all the stuff in the library section (the big Systron Donner text is the best introduction). Also try to find a copy of the Korn and Korn book (I picked one up last week form a sechondhand book seller). Hewlett Packard archives ------------------------ http://www.kennethkuhn.com/hpmuseum/ History of Hewlett Packard http://www.hpmemory.org/ --> http://www.hpmemoryproject.org/ http://www.hparchive.com/ http://www.hpmuseum.net/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hp_agilent_equipment/ http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hparchive/ Old magazines & catalogs ------------------------ PDF copies of old Allied, Heathkit, Burnsein Applebee, Fair Radio, Lafayette and Radio shack catalogs going back to the 1930s http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/some-catalogue-nostalgia-for-the-old-timers-out-there/ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Electronics_Catalogs.htm http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/ Tektronix archives ------------- http://www.vintagetek.org/ Museum of vintage Tektronix equipment. http://www.reprise.com/host/tektronix/home/default.asp Tektronix Resource Site Restoration, repair, and use of older Tektronix https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMh66Lh4AQrkVBpN2N5RZuA Vintage Tek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHGAnJjnNY0 Tektronix: The Cathode Ray Tube - Window to Electronics http://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/vintage-tek-restoration-pictures-by-martin http://www.wellenkino.de/ incl Tek restoration forum http://readingjimwilliams.blogspot.com.au/ http://readingjimwilliams.blogspot.de/search/label/Scope%20Sunday Radio, Valves - retro electronics ---------------------------------- http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/ UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration Forum http://www.vintage-radio.com/ http://www.bvws.org.uk/ British vintage wireless society http://lampes-et-tubes.info/index-e.htm Lamps and Tubes http://www.stevenjohnson.com/ Steve's Antique Technology. SLJ on eevblog http://www.stevenjohnson.com/dmm.htm Fluke multimeters http://www.antiqueairwaves.com/ also Steve/SLJ http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/ Mike's Electric Stuff http://www.vk2bv.org/museum/ Kurrajong Radio Museum, Sydney. http://www.tuberadio.com/ Ray P's site (Sydney) http://www.tuberadio.com/display/display.html http://www.jacmusic.com/ Manufacture valves. Forum + projects. http://www.radiomuseum.org Worldwide org of antique radio collectors http://www.tubecollector.org http://antiqueradios.com/ http://www.askjanfirst.com/rod/ Valve & Tube Home Page http://www.mu-inc.com/ http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/tube-factory-sell-off/ http://www.virhistory.com/ham/shack.htm K4NYW vintage ham shack http://www.navy-radio.com/misc/shack.htm same guy https://www.reddit.com/r/diytubes http://www.john-a-harper.com/tubes201/ "Tubes 201" - How Vacuum Tubes Really Work http://www.club-des-collectionneurs.com/A-vendre-quartz-radio.htm Collection of quartz crystals (in French) http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/valve-data-reference-book/ http://www.mif.pg.gda.pl/homepages/frank/more.html https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bw_PaC_rlfjpSngyeDk3YUtuVmc http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Wireless_World_Magazine.htm http://tubetime.us/ Modern electronics, driving old CRTs. https://frank.pocnet.net/ Frank's electron Tube Data sheets http://www.dos4ever.com/uTracer3/uTracer3_pag0.html Micro-driven radio-tube tester kit Music Synth info ---------------- http://www.vintagesynth.com/ http://machines.hyperreal.org/manufacturers/ http://www.fairlight.free.fr/ Laurent Lemaire's site. Space junk, techno-history --------------------------- http://www.orau.org/ptp/museumdirectory.htm http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~koeth/survey_meters/pages/tracerlab.html http://www.telephonecollecting.org http://www.bobsoldphones.net/Pages/index.htm Australian phone history http://www.webring.com/t/Antique-Telephone-Collecting-Web-Ring?sid=24 http://www.aviationsalvage.com.au/ 15 Adventure Place Taren Point, Sydney N.S.W., Australia 2229 sales@aviationsalvage.com.au Phone: 61-2-8544 0808 PDP-11 ------ http://www.nycresistor.com/2014/05/15/pdp-11/ http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/is-a-pocket-sized-altair-8800-a-brilliant-idea/25/ http://retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone https://www.hackster.io/obsolescence/pidp-8-a-pdp-8-minicomputer-on-raspberry-pi-8a7b5a https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term HP-1000 sites ------------- http://www.dashertechnologies.com/product_1000.htm http://www.hp1000.com http://www.sieler.com/hpdisk.txt Antique Instr & Books --------------------- http://www.gemmary.com/ http://www.tubebooks.org/ Vintage info from the days of vacuum tubes Via http://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/overhauling-high-voltage-vacuum-tube-(valve)-power-supply/ Australian retro-computing -------------------------- http://www.retrocomputingtasmania.com/ Nigel in Tasmania APPLE II -------- http://www.apple2.org/ See also: \\Landisk\Archives\__Tech_Info\__Software_ref\!_OS_bazarr\Contiki http://www.willegal.net/appleii/appleii-first_page.htm HP Calculators -------------- http://www.hpmuseum.org/ http://hp9830.com/ http://www.hp9831.com/ http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=950 Old Computer Software --------------------- https://winworldpc.com/home WinWorld from the past, to the present, for the future WinWorld is an online museum dedicated to the preservation and sharing of vintage, abandoned, and pre-release software. We offer information, media and downloads for a wide variety of computers and operating systems. Our entire library is free, open and available to everyone. Whether you're looking to go down memory lane and re-visit classic versions of Windows, do some research on computing history, or repurpose an old system that can't run the latest and greatest, we aim to be your number one source of top-quality information and downloads that other sites simply can't compare with. Get classic operating systems, applications, games and betas for every platform from PC to Mac to Amiga, right here from the software library on WinWorld. http://www.righto.com/2015/10/repairing-50-year-old-mainframe-inside.html (IBM 1401 mainframe repair)