Why this page?
I was looking for some information on the history of computers and found
some good sites. So now you can use this information to impress
your friends. I have gotten enough interest on here, that I am going to be doinga lot of re-work of things and actually adding my own content instead of just lnks. My 1st focus for this page will be Unix, since that is what I tend to have
more interest in myself. The information on this page is correct to my knowledge, if there is anything wrong, please let me know. If you have some extra time, check out some of my other pages, like my Photography page
Since I have not had much time to work on this, I will just add a couple links
C|net has a real good page available at their site
that talks about old systems from the Altair forward and gives even better links
Thanks
Troy
If you want more history, check out this Obsolete Computer Museum. This site has lots of pictures of never before heard of computers.
60's
Unix was 1st developed in 1969 at Bell Laboratories. Bell labs released Unix Version 6 (V6) in 1976
In the early 80's there was a seperation of the UNIX tree. It split into 3 different branches, System III from Bell Labs, UNIX Berkeley Source Distribution, and Microsoft's XENIX.
Internet History
The internet is 30 years old now!
September 2nd, 1969 was the day that packets were sent between the Sigma 7
mainframe that was the 1st internet node and its Honeywell based IMP
(Internet Message Processor) at UCLA.
General History
Computers programs are 50 years old this year (1998). The computer "Baby" used a CRT for data storage and it used repeated subtraction to do division.
History of Computers During My Lifetime Index (in my lifetime too) Real good site. Covers most of the real big innovations.
History of Computers During My Lifetime 1970s Unix/Apple
II/Commodore PET/Intel 4004/Hard Drives
History of Computers During My Lifetime 1980s IBM
PC/Commodore/Mac/Atari ST/Amiga/386/Sparc/NExT/SGI
History of Computers During My Lifetime 1990s
Windows/AMD/Linux/Windows 95/Macintosh System 7/Alpha/World Wide
Web/Pentium
Unix
Brief History
of Unix Did you know Unix was developed in 1969?
Linux 0.01 Was released in September 1991 (I started using it in 1992)
386BSD 0.0 was released in February 1992
Dos
History of DOS
and the Personal Computer Goes from DOS 1.0 to Dos 5.0
Making History
List of the Top 500 Supercomputer in the world.
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