CHM Releases New Recordings and Personal Stories with AI Expert Systems Pioneers

Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation

The 1986 ACM Conference on the History of Personal Workstations

Punched Cards

Fairchild, Fairchildren, and the Family Tree of Silicon Valley (2016)

Oral History of Ken Thompson (2005)

Intel 386 Microprocessor Design and Development Oral History Panel (2008)

Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System

In His Own Words: Gary Kildall

The Earliest Unix Code: An Anniversary Source Code Release

Steve Jobs, NeXTStep, and Early Object Oriented Programming

TIL that if Guido was better at math, Python might have never been created (PDF, page 5, last question)

The Fortran Automatic Coding System (1957)

Preliminary Macintosh Business Plan (1981)

Record handling in ALGOL (1965)

LISP Implementation for the PDP-1 Computer (1964)

Oral History of Dave House (2004)

Oral History of John Backus (2006)

The Two-Napkin Protocol (2015)

The Eudora™ Email Client Source Code

The Honeywell Animals (2012)

The Eudora Email Client Source Code

Adobe Photoshop was written in Pascal

Computer History Museum 2018 Fellow Award – Guido van Rossum

Intel 4004 microprocessor oral history panel (2007)

Computer History Museum 2018 Award Honorees

What a programmer does

The HP-35 Design: A Case Study in Innovation (2011)

Nov 10 CHM: Live Xerox Alto demo with original PARC development team

Restoring Yesterday’s “Computer System of Tomorrow”: A Conversation with Curator & Alto Restorer

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