Description of Resource: 
The website provides links 1) to information on a 2003 conference on the History of Nordic Computing (HiNC 1), 2) a Computing History quiz, 3) an Introduction to website, 4) a short list of Computing History conferences and meetings implemented in the early 2000s, 4) a short list of Computing History courses, 4) "Overviews of the History of Computing," 5) a discussion of "People and Pioneers," 6) "Companies and Corporations," 7) "Machines (including a special section on Cryptography)," 9) "Programming Languages," 10) "Calculators," 11) and"Publications" in computing history, 12) a list of "Computer History Organizations and Museums," 13) four histories of computing at universities and one college in the U.S. and England, 14) a list of computer history Archives and Collections," 15) a list of websites that provide "Networks and Internet" histories, 16) "On-line emulators of computers and computing systems," 17) "Miscellaneous" computing history links, and 18) a list of email addresses for "Women in (the) Computing History" listservs. "In keeping with the tradition of documenting women's history through oral histories, the Women in (the) Computing History mailing list hopes to augment traditional resources of women's history and histories of computing by being a repository for women's own stories throughout the history of computing. All women in computing, too, not just those of us formally schooled in the computing sciences" (excerpted from VT's History of Computing website).
Address: 
114 McBryde Hall (0106), Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
United States
Contact name: 
J.A.N. Lee
Country phone code: 
1
Contact phone: 
(540) 231-6931
Is there a fee: 
No
Sector: 
Services: 
The History of Computing website is an informational resource.
Public or private: 
Public
Website or physical archive: 
Physical AND website