Links

• More home-brew Mini-Computers
• A general discussion of professional wire-wrap construction. (by John Doran)
• Home of the Z80 CPU
• Z80, the 8-bit Number Cruncher
• SDCC - Small Device C Compiler
• Computer History Museum (Montain View, CA)
• Computer History Time-Line (1960-1980)

Videos

• Z80 homebrew mini-computer similar to LC-81
• A low-cost wire-wrapping technique
• A Financial Software package for DEC micro and minicomputers (1984)
• IBM System/360 Control Program (conference)
• Ken Olsen and DEC from 1957 to 1989
• DEC effort to enter the Personal Computer market (1982)
• Early MIT research on TimeSharing (1963)
• Conference to celebrate the Cray-1 30th Aniversary (1976-2006)

Books

• When Computers were Humans, by David Alan Grier (1955)
  --In the 17th Century, the term "computers" referred to a professional workers who performed arithmetic calculations by hand.
• Grace Hopper and the Ivention of the Information Age, by Kurt W. Beyer (2009)
  --Grace Hopper is one of the earliest and greatest pioneers in Computer Programming.
• The Mini-Computer in the Laboratory with examples using the PDP-11, by James W. Cooper (1976)
  --Full of details on how to program the PDP-11. Real-life Scientific applications for the laboratory on those days.
• Z80 Assembly Language Subrutines, by Lance A. Leventhal (1976)
  --Excelent reference to Z80 serious programming.
• The Design of the Unix Operating System, by Maurice J. Bach (1986)
  --An invaluable contemporary insight of AT&T Unix from the developer's perspective.