Robroy

Mostly of interest for documents about Babbage. Also boatbuilding.

to babbage boats history retrocomputing ... on 23 February 2009

The Home of Radio London (Big L), Radio London Ltd and the Big L Fab 40

Lots of interesting little bits.

to history pirate radio ... on 21 February 2009

The Railways Archive

Historical British railway documents. (Wikipedia's "List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom" article is probably a better index than this site provides by itself, though.)`

to amusements history retrotech trains ... on 04 February 2009

Astoria: Theodor Lauppert's Homepage

Short articles about classic (and some more recent) games, with emphasis on the relationships between them; if you want to see what inspired a game, or compare the different versions of it, this is probably where to look.

to games history puzzles retrocomputing ... on 15 November 2008

1401Restoration-CHM

The CHM's IBM 1401 systems, and how they're being restored. Lots of interesting stuff.

to electronics history ibm retrocomputing ... on 15 November 2008

Pyestock

An enormous abandoned site dedicated to gas turbine testing. Very cool.

to abandoned amusements engineering history ... on 07 November 2008

Greg Goebel / In The Public Domain

Various history-of-technology stuff. The guide to WW2 radar and navigation technology is particularly good.

to aviation electronics history radar radio retrotech ww2 ... on 24 August 2008

aafradio.org

An impressive collection of WW2 US Navy/Air Force radios, from one of the guys restoring the Enola Gay.

to aviation electronics history radio retrotech ... on 24 August 2008

The 1995 SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics

The history of relational databases, with somewhat of an IBM flavour.

to databases history retrocomputing ... on 07 October 2007

NASA publications

NASA's collection of online books. The one about the history of NASA computing is particularly interesting.

to history space ... on 31 August 2007

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