Other History Sites

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=50 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="027000d2esnpes.gif"> <div> <B>Other History Sites</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=394 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Here is a list of some other software history sites with old pictures or artifacts. Let me know (webmaster@bricklin.com) of others.</B></div> <bR> <div> Listed in the order I added them (i.e., no special order). Thanks to all the people sending me links!</div> <bR> <div> <B>Outliners:</B> <A HREF="http://www.outliners.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.outliners.com/"><U>www.outliners.com</U></A></div> <div> Dave Winer's site dedicated to outlining programs like ThinkTank, Ready!, and MORE.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Early Borland Products:</B> <A HREF="http://community.borland.com/museum/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://community.borland.com/museum/"><U>community.borland.com/museum</U></A></div> <div> Turbo Pascal and Turbo C. Early Borland ads.</div> <bR> <div> <B>C Compiler:</B> <A HREF="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/primevalC.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/pr"><U>cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/primevalC.html</U></A></div> <div> Dennis Ritchie's source of an early version of the C language that he used to re-write Unix in C in the early 1970's.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Doug Engelbart's History Corner:</B> <A HREF="http://www.bootstrap.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.bootstrap.org/"><U>www.bootstrap.org</U></A></div> <div> History of the mouse, hypertext systems, and more, from the inventor of the computer mouse.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Multics:</B> <A HREF="http://www.multicians.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.multicians.org/"><U>www.multicians.org</U></A></div> <div> Web site devoted to the Multics system. I was one of the many people who worked on Multics. It was a very influential system, started in 1965, and inspired Unix (when Bell Labs dropped out of the project), the 80386 chip design, and more.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Adventure:</B> <A HREF="http://www.pcii.net/~msadams/advent.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.pcii.net/~msadams/advent.htm"><U>www.pcii.net/~msadams/advent.htm</U></A>, <A HREF="http://www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/"><U>www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/</U></A></div> <div> The first site is from Scott Adams, who wrote various adventure programs (not the Dilbert person). It is a site devoted to Adventure games (interactive fiction, originally text-based). The second site, Adventureland, tries to list all Adventure games, has a timeline, etc.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Polarware:</B> <A HREF="http://www.inil.com/users/maxfunn/Polarware/polarware.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.inil.com/users/maxfunn/Polarw"><U>www.inil.com/users/maxfunn/Polarware/polarware.htm</U></A></div> <div> Mark Pelczarski maintains a web site that describes Apple II software sold by Polarware, a company that existed from 1978-1987 and apparently was known as Penguin Software, Inc., from 1981-1986. Has a link to the "<A HREF="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/apple2/emulators-faq/part1/faq.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/"><U>Apple ][ Emulator Resources Guide</U></A>" page (which mentions that ROM images have copyright restrictions in section 1.3). That Guide includes a link to <A HREF="http://www.emulation.net/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.emulation.net/"><U>www.emulation.net</U></A> which includes not only emulators for many old computers but also a <A HREF="http://www.emulation.net/apple1/manual/apple1manx.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.emulation.net/apple1/manual/a"><U>replica</U></A> of an Apple I (not II!) manual.</div> <bR> <div> <B>C, Unix, and more from Dennis Ritchie:</B> <A HREF="http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/~dmr" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/~dmr"><U>www.cs.bell-labs.com/~dmr</U></A></div> <div> Dennis Ritchie has a list of links to lots of old material, including the First Edition Unix Manual, old photos, paper reprints, and more. See also <A HREF="dmrletter.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letter from Dennis Ritchie"><U>his letter</U></A> on this web site.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Virginia Tech History of Computing:</B> <A HREF="http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/"><U>ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/</U></A></div> <div> Lots of material, including a great "People and Pioneers" page, links, pictures, and more.</div> <bR> <div> <B>System R History and the Birth of SQL:</B> <A HREF="http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/"><U>www.mcjones.org/System_R/</U></A></div> <div> Paul McJones' site. "System R is a database system built as a research project at IBM San Jose Research (now IBM Almaden Research Center) in the 1970's. System R introduced the SQL language and also demonstrated that a relational system could provide good transaction processing performance. " Lots of first-person accounts.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Trenco Apple II Archive:</B> <A HREF="http://www.gno.org/a2ftp.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.gno.org/a2ftp.html"><U>//www.gno.org/a2ftp.html</U></A></div> <div> Lots of Apple II files, including software and documentation. Hundreds of files.</div> <bR> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=36 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="027000d2esnpes.gif"> <div>                                              For more History see the book <A HREF="http://www.bricklin.com/bontech" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.bricklin.com/bontech"><U><I>Bricklin on Technology</I></U></A>.</div> <div> © Copyright 1999-2009 by Daniel Bricklin. All Rights Reserved.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>