Dead Computer Society

see here.

Transputer Parsys Machine

Here's a blast from the past!

I did my undergraduate project using Occam-2 on one of these machines - oh, happy days!

(Good lord, I think I'm turning into a Computing Pioneer!)

H/T: Kevin Walters

Beehives and Mainframes

Here. They were developing an "ultra high speed information retrieval system". Wonderful!

(h/t: David Thompson)

More computing history

The history of the mouse.

and.

Pictures of the Xerox interface, 1981. From quite a nice resource on the history of computing, Digibarn.


(h/t: David Thompson)

Predicting the Internet/Web

From 1981:

Talks about newspapers, but could be any type of information.

(h/t: David Thompson).

Generating Art from Analogue Computers

Nice bit of computing History this! Desmond Paul Henry (1921 to 2004) built a number of analogue bombsite computers , to create art. The art he created this way has its own symmetrical beauty. More about this fascinating man can be found here.

(h/t Ian Logan)

Computing History

David Thompson has posted some links on the history of storage and antique computers at RAL.

Large is the word. The earliest hard disk drive would practically take up all of my bedroom!