The Autocodes

British programming languages of the early 1950s.

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Documenting Early Radio

"The following pages contain a scholarly and easily-readable investigation of very early recording media that was used during the early days of radio." And a list of all the known-to-exist recordings (mostly American).

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The Joe Smith Collection (Recorded Sound Reference Center; Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division; Library of Congress)

Interviews, dating from the late 80s, with a number of well-known musicians. (You'll probably recognise Joe Smith from lots of BBC music documentaries...)

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Project Oberon (New Edition 2013)

Book on the development of the Oberon system. I remember playing with this on the Amiga a long time ago...

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A Culture of Innovation: Insider Accounts of Computing and Life at BBN

Book about the history of BBN. But the really interesting thing here is the source code for the IMP -- the original ARPAnet router -- and details about recovering it and running it in emulation. Very neat!

to arpanet bbn history imp internet networking retrocomputing ... on 13 December 2013

The Dawn of TV

Recovering recordings of early (i.e. 1920s) British TV.

to broadcast history recording restoration retrotech tv ... on 01 December 2013

Broadcast History Resource Links

Elizabeth MacLeod's comprehensive articles on particular American broadcasters (e.g. there's a really good section here on Amos and Andy, and how it's been interpreted by history).

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Patepluma Radio History

Latin American radio history. Fascinating!

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Jeff Miller Pages

I got here via the comprehensive section on American early broadcast radio (while looking to see which of the Mercury Theatre's radio productions survive -- turns out many of them do and they're pretty good). The maths stuff here is at least as interesting, though.

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TCI Library - Home

The library here is good, if a bit hard to navigate.

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