Computers

Manufacturer of thin client terminals, flat panel monitors, computers, and kiosks. Also provide custom solutions, enclosures, touch screens, and integration services.

Offers industrial PC (IPC), single board computers (SBC), CPU boards, rack-mount equipment and chassis, and embedded control software products.

UK based designer and manufacturer of industrial servers and embedded motherboars.

Design and manufactures PCB board products for most bus types. Also offer object oriented software design. Cupertino, California.

Provides industrial computers and servers.

Offers a catalog and information retrieval system for industrial computers and automation facilities. Based in Germany.

The network appliances deliver Internet and email security, network services and groupware.

Touchscreen kiosks, turnkey or barebones.

Romanian provider of interactive multimedia touchscreen kiosks.

Presents interactive touchscreen kiosk systems for Internet applications, with point of sale facilities. UK based.

UK-based firm offering pre-designed and custom built kiosk and terminal solutions.

Offers servers, workstations, clustering hardware, and support services.

Australian company that builds custom based Linux solutions for both corporate and home use.

Personal Computers with SUSE, Mandrake or Redhat Linux pre-installed.

Information for notebook and laptop users: News, reviews, tips, downloads, and newsletter.

Short article on desire and means for silent computing. Low End Mac.

Download locations, description, notes, and installation instructions.

One of the Silicon Graphics FAQs series.

A Minnesota based company specializing in refurbished SGI parts and systems.

Builds rack mount, Intel architecture servers with 1,2,4 or 8 processors in 1U, 2U, 3U, 4U, 5U and 7U enclosures optimized for high availability.

Provides Linux hardware and storage servers.

Continuous availability server delivers unparalleled uptime for the Internet infrastructure, addressing the deficiencies of HA and clustered failover systems.

Provides set-top boxes for cable TV and satellite TV.

Korean-based TV manufacturer providing digital set-top box and other TV products.

Provides Moxi Media Center entertainment set-top boxes for cable and satellite TV.

Smart Card consulting in Atlanta, GA, USA: contractor for software development and project management. Specialized in security chips, smart cards, security tokens and dongles via PC/SC, ISO 7816 standards.

Provides information about programming Smart Cards and Terminal applications (JavaCard, Multos, Smart Cards for Windows, OpenCard, Visa Open Platform).

Resellers of Sun Microsystems hardware and solutions including products from workstations to Enterprise Class servers and storage.

HPCVL was formed by a consortium of four universities located in Eastern Ontario, Canada, to support innovative research in a broad spectrum of disciplines. A Sun Centre of Excellence site.

Sells Sun systems, components, peripherals, memory, and accessories, with online shopping.

A reseller of new and used original disk drives and storage for Sun equipment, in the USA.

A variety of sources and links for wearable computing.

Hybrid design between real and virtual from Electronic Shadow.[Mostly French but nice pictures and a movie]

Fiber Channel test tools

A biography by J.A.N. Lee. looking at him as a philosopher, politician, Newtonian, and industrialist.

Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra, a collection of over 1,300 written works, famously known as EWDs. Also, In Pursuit of Simplicity symposium. Format: PDF.

Resource for exploring the history of human computer interaction beginning with the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart and his colleagues at Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s.

Debunks a persistent email hoax alleging that Microsoft is giving away money to people who forward chain letters.

A biography with links to related topics. [Wikipedia]

Lecture video at Internet Archive. Open content.

Biography by Lee Angelelli of the co-founder of Apple Computer.

Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks, including death itself.

Famous Rolling Stone article by Stewart Brand, part of which discusses PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk.

Summary of Kay talk, photograph series. Windley's Technometria.

History archive of firm founded by Gary and Dorothy Kildall (nee McEwen) in 1974, which soon became the first successful PC OS company. Tributes to the Kildalls, information on CP/M, MS/PC-DOS, Caldera v. Microsoft, many related topics.

Principle table and slogan outline explanation.

University of Edinburgh, summaries of: Computer Security in the Real World (Milner lecture); Computer Systems Research: Past and Future; How to Build a Highly Available System without a Toolkit.

By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on Lady Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage, Difference and Analytical Engines. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews.

Biography and small portrait.

Brief biography with references.