Technology: Computing and Hardware

Computer History Association of California Link to the History Pages for a nice index on a wide array of machines. Search this site's domain using HotBot: The Computer Museum Network Well-done site includes galleries, history, timelines, and much more, put together by Boston's renowned Computer Museum. John Schwartz visited the museum in "Key Memories," in Wired 4.06. Hobbes' Internet Timeline A lovely timeline for key events and technologies that affected Net growth, replete with bibliography. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing A quarterly that calls itself "the primary publication for recording, analyzing, and debating the history of computing." Nonmember subscriptions are US$22 per year. Search this site's domain using HotBot: Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet Michael and Ronda Hauben's excellent historical guide to the origins of the Net. Search this site's domain using HotBot: Triumph of the Nerds This is a companion site for the PBS television special of the same title in which they detail how hippies and nerds "accidentally changed the world." IBM OS/2 Warp IBM's Windows-challenging PC operating system. Mostly press releases, but some help and information sources. This engine searches IBM's entire site, so try "OS/2 and DOS" Jeff's Unix Vault A resource for all things Unix - windowing systems, shells, security, scripting, publications, newsgroups. The Linux Home Page Main page for the freely distributable version of Unix that was originally created by Linus Torvalds. The linkage to other Linux Web sites is extensive. Search this site's domain using HotBot: Mac OS Web This is Apple Computer Inc.'s homepage for their fabled (but imperiled) operating system. Concept or Keywords FreeBSD Inc. FreeBSD is an advanced BSD Unix operating system for "PC-compatible" computers, developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. FreeBSD, as the name would imply, is free and comes with full source code. Yahoo! Unix Links Yahoo! has a broad index for Unix stuff. Ames Scalable Computing Laboratory A joint effort between Iowa State University and the US Department of Energy, the Scalable Computing Lab does plenty of research in science and engineering computation. Search this site's domain using HotBot: Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative ASCI is a project tying together the resources of three National Labs (Los Alamos, Sandia, and Lawrence Livermore) to, in essence, end US nuclear testing by developing computational-based methods of ensuring the safety, reliability, and performance of the nuclear weapons stockpile. Search this site's domain using HotBot: Cray Research Take a look at the tribute to Seymour Cray, the father of the supercomputer, here. Cray Research is now owned by Silicon Graphics. Search this site's domain using HotBot: David Bader's List of Parallel Computing Sites This is a massive listing of all things supercomputing- and parallel computing-related worldwide. IBM Scalable Parallel Systems This is IBM's parallel computing research site. Search this site's domain using HotBot: Intel Supercomputing Systems Intel is the world's largest computer chip manufacturer. Search this site's domain using HotBot: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Hard-core, ongoing research in five gereal areas which MIT labels information infrastructures, computers and people, computers and science, computer systems research, and theory. Also check out MIT's nCUBE geophysical computation project. Search this site's domain using HotBot: National Center for Supercomputing Applications The NCSA is a scientific research center that has a completely digital and scalable networked infrastructure. It's also known as the center that sprouted the very first Web browser - Mosaic. Search the NCSA using HotBot: National Environmental Supercomputing Center A project of the US Environmental Protection Agency, the NESC houses the world's first supercomputer dedicated solely to environmental research. Search this site's domain using HotBot: Silicon Graphics SGI is a high-profile maker of workstations, Web servers, and supercomputers.

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