[Engineering][Invention and Business] Felt, Dorr Eugene. British Patents for Improvements in Calculating Machines (1900–1904) document the development of one of the earliest commercially successful key-driven mechanical calculators, reflecting the rapid mechanization of clerical labor at the turn of the twentieth century. These patents relate to the Comptometer, first introduced in.....
RCA COSMAC VIP (a build it yourself microcomputer sold to hobbyists and students) archive of user programming periodicals, 1978 to 1980, documenting the late 1970s culture of kit computer ownership, reader written software, and newsletter based technical exchange before home computing became a retail software market. This low cost kit.....
Higinbotham, William A. Signed typescript of Frederic D. Schwartz’s 1990 article on the origins of early video games documents the role of a nuclear physicist in the development of interactive electronic entertainment later associated with Pong. Higinbotham, a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, created an oscilloscope-based tennis simulation in 1958.....
2600: The Hacker Quarterly which document the technical practice of hacking ranging from telephone and computer systems, networks, encryption, consumer hardware to the legal and political questions it raised, from the status of code as speech to state surveillance. Archive of 10 issues. This run of ten issues, spanning Fall.....
Wall St. c. 1910, four press photographs of stock ticker machines, ticker tape baskets, and men handling market quotations in New York financial offices, recording the telegraph-linked machinery that allowed Wall Street to turn prices into printed paper strips, the system used in the early 20th century to record transactions.....
2600: The Hacker Quarterly archive of issues documenting the technical practice of hacking, ranging from phone phreaking, telephone and network investigation, encryption, and consumer hardware to the legal and political questions it raised, from the status of code as speech to state surveillance, as the magazine moved from the analog.....
Barr, Aaron; Cohen, Paul R.; Feigenbaum, Edward A. The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence. 1981. This three-volume work documents the system of artificial intelligence research consolidation and dissemination developed within Stanford University’s computer science community, bringing together approximately twenty-five years of work in heuristic programming, knowledge representation, and machine reasoning. The.....
Blacklisted! 411 archive of eight periodicals produced as part of a countercultural shared conviction that the telecommunications and computing systems proliferating through the 1990s should be understood by their users rather than treated as closed corporate property. The West Coast publication discusses phone phreaking (manipulating the telephone network), bulletin-board networks.....
The First Ad Spot for a Personal Computer in Print (1974) QST Magazine, Vol. 58, number 3. Newington, Connecticut. March 1974 edition. 6.5" x 9.5" inches. This edition of QST Magazine, an amateur radio enthusiast magazine, has the first ever advertisement in print of a personal computer. In 1974, computers.....
