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  Computer History and Restoration Links by Bill Degnan - 02/29/2024 06:53
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Bitsavers Software and Document Archive
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com

Retroarchive Multi-Platform
http://www.retroarchive.org

TextFiles.com rTTY Art Repository
http://artscene.textfiles.com/rtty/COLLECTION/

Mazjel.com Datastore:
Manuals and system docs galore.
http://maben.homeip.net/static/S100/index.html

Dave Dunfield's Site -
vintage computer newbies should start here, disk archiving info here
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield

Glitchworks FDC Results Registry - Drive controllers for imaging disks
https://services.theglit....net/ng/testfdc_results

Bryan's Old Computers Document Archive
http://bytecollector.com/m8_docs.htm

The Homebrew Computer Club Newsletters
https://arkive.net/gallery/homebrew-computer-club

Every Computer That Ever Was (list)
http://www.crowl.org/law...e/history/computer_list

This Day in Tech History
http://thisdayintechhist...com/category/computers/

Samuel S Snyder's 1964 "History of NSA General-Purpose Electronic Digital Computers"
http://www.governmentatt...ocs/NSA-HGPEDC_1964.pdf

Personal Computer Milestones - Fun page that attempts to answer the question: "What was the first PC?"
http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml

EarlyComputers: An Eclectic Collection of Personal Computers, featuring a variety of rare analog computers
http://www.earlycomputers.com/

Eastern Bloc Vintage Computing
http://www.leningrad.su/museum/main.php?lang=0

Russian Vintage Laptop Museum (mostly Western laptops)
http://vintage-laptops.com/?page_id=2&lang=en

Home Computer Museum - Germany
Large (very large) collection of "keyboard is the computer" era machines (primarily 1979-87)
http://www.homecomputer.de

Vintage Computer Federation (formerly MARCH)
I am a Member of this Vintage Computing Club in NJ USA:
http://www.vcfed.org

Classic CMP Mailing List
http://www.classiccmp.org/

Chicago Classic Computing (see: docs)
http://chiclassiccomp.org/

Floppy Days Podcast
http://floppydays.libsyn.com/

Herb Johnson's multi-faceted site covering S-100, CP/M, disk drives/storage, vintage computing hardware research and lot more
http://www.retrotechnology.com

DBIT: Source for 8" drive adapter to work on a newer drive controller
http://www.dbit.com/fdadap.html

Restoration of Yellowed Plastic Computer Cases
http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/

Teletype Paper Supplies
http://www.wncsupply.com

Tape Drive and Tape Recovery Article:
https://strandgames.com/...s-source-code-recovered

Vintage Hard Drive and related hardware specs, cylinders, tracks, etc
http://arl.wustl.edu/~lo...elppc/hardware.txt.html

Oscilloscopes - QRZ.com
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2AEW?ref=87316558

M. Farris & Associates support for storage devices
http://www.mfarris.com/
http://theref.mfarris.com/

Percom Tribute Web Site
https://www.rogerarrick.com/percom/sitemap.html

Floppy Drive FAQ for Tandy and related
http://home.online.no/~kr-lund/Floppy.htm

Tandy MFM Hard Disk Drive Reference
http://nemesis.lonestar....rdware/storage/mfm.html

TRS 80 / Tandy Archive
http://www.classiccmp.org/cpmarchives/trs80.php

More Tandy OS (Ira Goldklang)
http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/multidos/

Computer History Wiki (heavy on the DEC stuff)
http://gunkies.org/wiki/Main_Page

PDP 11 UNIBUS/QBUS Field Guide
http://www.pdp-11.nl/fieldguide.html
PDP 11 DD11 backplane notes
http://www.chdickman.com/pdp11/Notes/DD11.shtml
Chassis variations / power supplies
http://www.brouhaha.com/.../dec/pdp11/chassis.html

PDP 11 useful papertape files for testing
http://bitsavers.trailin...images/20040101/tray04/
PDP 11 MAINDEC
http://www.retrocmp.com/...e////devices/11-40.html

Installing UNIX on PDP-11
http://gunkies.org/wiki/...ng_UNIX_Seventh_Edition

PDP11 Disk Images
http://pdp-11.org.ru/files.pl?lang=en

OpenVMS VAX OS
http://saf.bio.caltech.edu/vms_beginners_faq.html
http://tsmach248.techsui...computing/cs101vax.html
http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/856
http://www.mi.infn.it/~c...016.htm#delete_acc_vol2

AT&T Unix PC 7300 / 3B1 FAQ
http://unixpc.taronga.com/faq/faq.txt

Apple II Restoration
http://www.willegal.net/appleii/appleii-repair.htm

Ohio Scientific (OSI) resources:
http://osiweb.org
http://marks-lab.com/osi

S-100 Computers
A web site for S-100 bus computer owners. Lots of cards, good reference
http://www.s100computers.com/

Altair Computer Notes at Rich Cini's site -
http://www.altair32.com/Altair32links.htm

Jim Battle's SOL website
http://www.sol20.org/articles.html

DeRAMP is Mike Douglas' Altair, SOL, Northstar Horizon, Vector Graphics, Polymorphic, IMSAI and related systems support site.
http://deramp.com/

Altair, IMSAI, Elf Emulators
http://incolor.inetnebr....computer_simulators.htm

Commodore Plus/4 World
http://plus4world.powweb.com/home "..Lots of good Commodore
Plus4 stuff there, including a fairly active forum..."

TPUG's Canadian Commodore SIG
http://www.tpug.ca/index...article&id=73&Itemid=70

Ray Carlsen's CBM Repair FAQs
http://personalpages.tds.net/~rcarlsen/cbm.html

Steve Gray's Commodore PET labels page
http://www.6502.org/user...er/petlabels/index.html
(see also 6502.org for lots more)

Gaby's Unofficial CP/M Web Site -
http://www.cpm.z80.de/

Heath/Zenith:
http://www.lesbird.com/sebhc/

IBM PS/2 Reference Files/drivers
http://www.mcamafia.de/mcapage0/adflist1.htm
http://www.walshcomptech.com/selectpccbbs/
IBM PS/2 microchannel related site
9595 - Ardent Tool of Capitalism:
http://ps-2.kev009.com/ohlandl/

All Things (IBM/PC) DOS
http://www.allthingsdos.com

Microsoft DOS images
https://winworldpc.com/product/ms-dos/

WinWorld Abandonware Site for older versions of Windows
https://winworldpc.com/

The A+
Reference Book" by Phil Croucher, which lists switch settings for hundreds of motherboards, BIOS settings, POST codes and much more.
aplus.pdf

How to Add CD ROM to MS DOS Machine
http://www.computerhope.com/cdromd.htm

Collector's Weekly Vintage Computer Links Page
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/computers


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