Links to Other Technology Sites
If you have links to other calculator, calculating device, early electronics, or history-of-computer related sites you think should be here, please contact us. We also invite readers whose personal web pages have calculators or calculator themes to be added. Just drop us a line with the site address.
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Please note that site addresses can change. If a link does not work try searching for the site with a search engine, such as Google.
To translate a site into another language try running it through the Babelfish automatic translator at http://babelfish.altavista.com/. Although not perfect it does allow much of the information on the site to be understood.
In no particular order, here are some great vintage technology websites!:
- 30 years of Intel innovation including information on the 4004, one of the world's first microprocessors, which was designed for use in a calculator.
- Hal Layer's Mind Machine Museum with over 100 artifacts illustrated and identified
- The eBay U.S. auction website at www.ebay.com always has many vintage calculators to bid on. Search on "calculator". You can also try the eBay sites in other countries, or choose "any country" on the Advanced Search page.
- Commodore history can be found at http://amiga.emugaming.com/commodore.html and http://www.commodore.ca/history/company/early_commodore_history.htm.
- A site with historic information about the calculator chip manufacturer Mostek is MostekLives.
- Emil Dudek's Vintage Technology site at www.vintage-technology.info has interesting photographs and information about vintage calculators, and much, much more vintage technology.
- Nathan Zeldes has a website in a very readable "show and tell" style which features some very unusual items, at http://www.nzeldes.com/. See the History of Computing section for calculators and computers. May 06.
- Guy Ball, who's Old Calcs site is now amalgamated with this site, has a site dedicated to LED calculator watches and LED watches at http://www.ledwatches.net, where there is lots of information about vintage 1970s LED watches, pictures and links.
- Kashif Hussain has a Vintage Watch site at http://www.vintagewatches.tk/ which also includes vintage calculators, and other old technology, for sale.
- A site with lots of interesting information on the history of Video Games and Home Computers is the Dot Eaters and Number Crunchers Museum at http://www.8bit-museum.de/. The site is
in German and English.
The Vintage Calculators site was honoured to receive the Video Games & Home Computers History Award in October 2002.
- Patent Search Page -- Interesting Info (& great fun), search for "calculator"
- If you are also interested in slide-rules try Ron Manley's interesting site at www.sliderules.clara.net
- For a website with information about VHF amateur radio technology from the 1960s to early 1980s in Germany and Austria see http://www.ve6aqo.no-ip.com/. Dec 06.
- If you are interested in old British bakelite telephones have a look at Vintage Telephones at Abdy Antiques at http://www.antiquetelephones.abdyantiques.co.uk/. Dec 06.
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