Retro-Computing Links

Here be some quickly thrown together retro-computing links. More is to come, especially the local stuff when I have figured out what can be distributed.

Museums and Archives

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

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^

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!)^

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.

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.