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The Canadian Privateering Homepage edit / delete
With an exhaustive analysis of the accuracy of "Barrett's Privateers". (Summary: surprisingly good considering that Stan Rogers made the story up out of whole cloth.)
Dokumentationsarchiv Funk (QSL Collection) edit / delete
The descendant of Radio Austria's archive. (Jonathan Marks has some videos of their collections.)
The Computer Magazine Archives : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive edit / delete
For AG0700 students researching old games: archive.org now has a reasonable selection of British computer magazines, as well as American ones.
to ag0700 history magazines retrocomputing ... on 13 October 2012
Amiga Shopper Magazine : Free Texts : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive edit / delete
All of my favourite 90s Amiga magazine (although no coverdisks -- but I've got most of them anyway). They also have CU Amiga now.
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Older Phones & Phone Systems on VoIP edit / delete
(Hm, thought I'd bookmarked this before.) Building an international hobbyist phone system by gluing together telephone collectors' exchanges using Asterisk. Very cool, and now remarkably large.
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An Historical Timeline of Computer Graphics and Animation edit / delete
By Oscar Xavier Chavarro -- very comprehensive, with screenshots.
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Early British Computers edit / delete
"EARLY BRITISH COMPUTERS details the pioneering work on modern computers that took place in the United Kingdom between 1935 and 1955 including such landmark projects as the world's first working stored- program computer, the first commercially available computer, and the first transistorized computer." From 1980, which makes it pretty retro itself, but very interesting.
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LacusCurtius • Frontinus on the Water Supply of Rome edit / delete
The Latin text, and an older translation. It about ties for readability with the modern one, but it's not as accurate (and it tends to guess when the Latin is clearly gibberish).
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Frontinus Translation Introduction edit / delete
A decent readable modern translation of the classic (i.e. only surviving) work on aqueducts in Ancient Rome. (How did I get here? Frontinus shows up as a character in the Falco books.)
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Ordnance Survey large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - National Library of Scotland edit / delete
High-res scans of the old town plans. I live on Thorter Row, which was built about ten years ago; from looking at the maps of Dundee here, I learned that there used to be a Thorter Row in the city centre about a hundred years before that...
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tasty by Adam Sampson.