History of computing and H Guide - Resources and Review

An eclectic collection of links connected with the history of computing and online computer
based exhibits available both locally and around the world.
 
Information about the first stored
program electronic digital computer, Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), which was created on June 21, 1948 at the University of Manchester. Includes events, SSEM, Manchester Mark 1, Ferranti Mark 1 and the Virtual Museum of Manchester Computing.
 
Resources about women in computing past and present.
 
Extensive collection of information about Sinclair computers, including the ZX Spectrum. Includes sections on the machines, the company, magazines, Sir Clive Sinclair himself, software emulators and utilities, and facts sheets covering every Sinclair product ever made.
 
Entry from the Jones Telecommunications and Multimedia Encyclopedia providing a summary of the history of computing from the abacus to the present day. Information is provided on early computing machines and inventors, the different stages of modern computers, and the present and beyond.
 
Presents a timeline exploring the history of computers from 1945 to 1990, exhibitions tracing the development of the Internet and the microprocessor, details of research requests and events, and collections of artefacts, documentation, ephemera, media (audio, digital, film, photo, and video), and software.
 
Information on Alan Turing (1912
1954), covering his work as a mathematician, philosopher, codebreaker, and early computer scientist.
 
An index of people and pioneers, machines, organisations, museums, archives, collections, publications, and networks involved in the development of computing.
 
Collection of numerous book reviews submitted by a range of individuals. Headings include applications, operating systems, artificial intelligence, artificial life, data communications, dictionaries and glossaries, fiction, computer and technical history, internet, programming and languages, virus and security books.
 
Collection of games, text adventures, educational programs, utilities and other software for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer (born 1982), as well as file format specifications and other information files.
 
Collection of over 2000 documents, images, audio and video files about computer history and the digital age.
 
Summarises important events in the development of computers from 1947 to the present.
 
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