WARC capture of The Computer Museum website, including all attached files. The website was created to celebrate the 40th anniverary of the museum. To visit the site follow tcm.computerhistory.org
Folklore.org is a site containing over 100 stories about the development of the original Macintosh and the people who made it. It's been over twenty years since most of the stories were written; they are historical artifacts in their own right now, officially available under the auspices of the Computer History Museum. To visit the site go to folklore.org
<div>The Software Industry Special Interest Group (SI SIG) is a part of the Computer History Museum and is dedicated to preserving the history of the software Industry. This effort began in 1997 as a web site created by Luanne Johnson and Burton Grad, two software industry veterans who were concerned that the history of this vital industry would be lost unless an effort was made to preserve the records of early software companies and the personal recollections of the people who were involved in the initial development of the industry. The web site was created to provide a source of information about people who made important contributions to software history and to solicit input from anyone who might know of the existence of records documenting the industry’s formative years.</div> <div> </div> <div>In the November 1999 issue of <em>Fortune</em> magazine, the author of an article on the most important businessmen of the 20th Century wrote that prior to Microsoft, pure software companies didn’t exist. This clearly erroneous statement inspired Johnson and Grad to increase their efforts to correct this common misperception and they decided to create a more formal structure to pursue the goal of preserving the history of the software industry.</div> <div> </div> <div>The Software History Center was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation under the laws of California in February, 2000, with the support of seed money from a number of software industry pioneers. Our founding donors were Computer Associates International, David A. Duffield, Burton Grad, The Imlay Foundation, Joseph A. Piscopo, Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Sam Wyly.</div> <div> </div> <div>In January 2005, the Software History Center merged with the Computer History Museum and formed the Software Business History Committee to continue these preservation efforts.</div> <div> </div> <div>On May 1, 2004, the Charles Babbage Foundation in cooperation with the Computer History Museum and the Software History Center obtained a major grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to explore and pursue the use of the Internet as a prmary means of collecting and communicating valuable historic information about selected companies in the information technology field. Luanne Johnson was selected as the Principal Investigator and led the project through its conclusion in December 2006.</div> <div> </div> <div>The Computer History Museum has combined the follow on work from both of these sources into the Software Industry SIG and will continue the collection and preservation efforts of these previous organizations.</div> <div> </div> <div>The site cna be accessed at the following URL: softwarehistory.org</div>
<p>This website contains various Smalltalk stories and digital artifacts that were collected by Dan Ingalls from years of building Smalltalk systems at Xerox, Apple, HP, and Disney. The collection began as background amterial for a paper for the ACM's History of Programming Languages conference in 2020. In addition to various research papers, there are simulations of several generations of Smalltalk which can be run in a browser.</p> <p>The site can be accessed at the following URL: smalltalkzoo.computerhistory.org</p>
<p>This website contains select snapshots of Alto source code, executables, documentation, font files, and other files from 1975-1978. </p> <p>The site can be accessed at the following URL: xeroxalto.computerhistory.org</p>
<p>With the permission of PARC (formerly the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, now a part of SRI International), the Computer History Museum is pleased to make available, for non-commercial use only, snapshots of source code, executables, documentation, font files, and other files. The files are organized by the original server on which they resided at PARC. For each server, there are one or more top-level directories containing subdirectories and files. Each file is generally presented two ways: in a viewable format (e.g., HTML, PDF), and in its original format (referred to as "raw" in the directory listings).</p> <p>The site can be accessed at the following URL: xeroxparcarchive.computerhistory.org</p>
<p>This is an archive of scanned copies of most of the known records from the CRMS APL project, which took place at the Center for Research in Management Science (CRMS) of the University of California, Berkeley, between 1972 and 1976. CRMS pioneered the use of interactive computerized multiperson simulation experiments for social science research. The facility, referred to as the Management Science Laboratory, was conceived by Professor Austin Hoggatt. The original computer system was based on linked DEC PDP-5 and PDP-8 computers.</p> <p>The site can be viewed at the following URL: crms-apl.computerhistory.org</p>
<p>The Computer Museum was founded by Ken Olsen and Gordon and Gwen Bell in 1975. The first exhibit was in a converted closet at Digital Equipment Corporation. In 1979 it officially became an exhibition site operated by DEC in Marlboro, Massachusetts. It opened to the public in 1984 when the museum was moved to downtown Boston. In 1998, the museum was relocated to Silicon Valley and has been reborn as the current Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.</p> <p>The site can be accessed at the following URL: tcm.computerhistory.org</p>
<p>The IBM 1401 Data Processing System transformed data processing and became one of the most popular computers of all time: by 1965, half of the computers on earth were from the 1401 family. This website documents the restoration efforts which led to the working machine in the Computer History Museum's IBM 1401 Demo Lab.</p> <p>The site can be accessed at the following URL: ibm1401.computerhistory.org</p>