Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), - timeline
Dr Tommy Flowers "colossus"
http://www.rogers.cwc.net/Dr-Thomas-Flowers.html
http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/lorenz/colossus.htm
http://www.acsa.net/a_computer_saved_the_world.htm
Small-Scale Experimental Machine
http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/comphist/eniac-story.html
LEO, world's first business computer (Lyons Electronic Office)
international business machines:
www.ibm.com/history/
http://www.glencoe.com/norton/n-instructor-/updates/1999/51099-2.html
http://www.hereintown.com/southburyalliance/time_line.htm
hewlett packard:
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/
fairchild semiconductor:
the “Traitorous Eight” quit Shockley Semiconductor then used $3500 of
their own money to develop a method of mass-producing silicon transistors
2 of the eight, Moore and Noyce, later founded intel in 1968
http://www.fairchildsemi.com/company/history_1957.html
intel:
http://www.intel.com/intel/anniversary/?iid=cmpnyinfo+technology_35Years&
digital equipment corporation:
http://www.vt100.net/timeline/1957.html
http://www.village.org/pdp-11/faq.pages/WhatPDP.html
http://www.dbit.com/~greeng3/pdp1/pdp1.timeshare
http://vt100.net/vt_history
Eric Levenez, guru of the diagram format, has compiled
the history of unix, windows and computer language history.
http://www.levenez.com/
CTSS, 1961 / project MAC / Multics, 1965-2000
DTSS: the dartmouth time sharing system , 1964-1999
http://www.unix.org/Posters/download/unix_posterA3_Screen.pdf
http://www.vintage-computer.com
http://www.computerhistory.org
http://www.computer.org/computer/timeline/timeline.pdf
"inventors of the modern computer" from about.com
(keep clicking onto the next chapter at the
bottom of the pages to avoid missing out)
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa031599.htm
http://www.prepressure.com/ps/history/history.htm
what about the internet then, checkout
Robert H'obbes' Zakon internet timeline
now let the Professor,
Andy Tanenbaum (author of minix),
put things in context for you!
then take a look here:
Kenneth Thompson
Dennis M. Ritchie
by the way,
even microsoft did a version of unix
mslinux - the premier linux distribution?