Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Early computers task force
Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to early computers (for which purpose early computers are loosely described as anything before those using integrated circuits). This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.
Title
WikiProject on Early computers
Scope
This WikiProject is a place to co-ordinate work on the numerous Wikipedia pages about early computers.
Parentage
The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Computing.
Descendant WikiProjects
No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.
Similar WikiProjects
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Participants
- Jnc|Talk
- User:Matt Crypto — I'm interested in early cryptanalytic hardware, including computers/proto-computers like the Colossus and the Bombes.
- pavlosh|Talk
- Walksonwalls|Talk
- Bubba73|Talk - inactive, though. I did quite a bit on early computers several months ago, but none lately.
- * Spyza|Talk
- RTC|Talk
Structure
Hierarchy definition
No classification of this project has been defined.
Goals
We are starting with a very limited list of goals; however, free free to add more (after discussion on the Talk: page, of course).
- To standardize classification of early computers into several different Categories. See /Generations for a draft article on the stages of early computer development.
General strategy and discussion forums
Infoboxes
- {{User WikiProject Early computers}}
 | This user is a member of the Early computers task force. |
Templates
See also
Information sources
Books
The list got rather long, and has been moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Early computers/Books.
External links
- The single most important source is probably the Annals of the History of Computing series; there is an online index of the issues here, but the articles themselves are only free to IEEE members, etc.
- The Charles Babbage Institute has a massive collection of oral histories of computer pioneers online; the complete list is rather lengthy.
- The University of Manchester has a great web site Birth of the Modern Computer, which includes a good links page.
- The late (and much missed) Mike Muuss collected a large number of original documents relating to early computer work in the US, at History of Computing Information
- Some info relating to early computer work in the USSR (there used to be such country :-) with focus to Ukraine.