Everyday things

Telcordia AXESS Point
Telcordia only
ACM Digital Library Search
USENIX Online Library Search
IEEE Computer Society Digital Library Search
Warwick Library Catalog Search
NECI CiteSeer

History of computing

Notes on the history of Soviet computer engineering and science
In Russian
Parallel Computing in Russia
Soviet Calculators Collection. By Sergei Frolov
In Russian
Slide Rule Universe

My computer hardware zoo

Mechanical calculators

Manufacturer Model OS Year
Contina AG Mauren Curta Type II -- 1960

Programmable electronic calculators/microcomputers

Manufacturer Model OS Year
Kvazar Elektronika MK-61 -- --
Angstrem Elektronika MK-85M -- --
Kristall Elektronika MK-90 BASIC 1.0 --
HP HP-71B -- 1985

(Sub)notebooks

Manufacturer Model OS Year
IBM Workpad z50 NetBSD/hpcmips or Windows CE 2.1 1999
HP Jornada 728 NetBSD/hpcarm or Windows CE 2.1 2002
Lenovo Thinkpad T61 NetBSD/amd64 and Windows XP under Xen 2008
Nokia N900 Maemo 5 (Freemantle) 2010

Servers and desktops

Manufacturer Model OS Year
Elekon Elektronika BK-0010-01 Vilnius BASIC 1993
Cobalt Qube 2 NetBSD/cobalt 1999
Sun Ultra 5 NetBSD/sparc64 1999
PC Engines Alix 3c3 Voyage Linux 2008
Shuttle X27D Fedora Core 11 2009

Solar sailing

Solar Sails
Cosmos One

Watches

Poljot Shturmanskie
PRIM Letecke Automatic
Omega Speedmaster Reduced

Everything else

Albreht Dürer
Hildegard von Bingen
Aquarium
Zavtra
For balance's sake.
Rudolf II and Prague
Machina Carnis Arcimboldo
Warwick Graduates' Association
Rensselaer Alumni Association
You and your research
By Richard W. Hamming. Principia Cybernetica

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