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10/12/2008
Historical walking tour (Boston Globe)
The town's Open Space Committee and Historical Commission are teaming up to host a historical walking tour Oct. 25 from 1 to 4 p.m. The guided walk begins and ends at the Ocean House at 2 Myrtle St., home of the Ashland Historical Society. For more information, e-mail info@ashlandopenspace.org or call 508-881-3449. The event's rain date is Oct. 26. ...
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10/12/2008
Redlands Projects: Historical Museum (Redlands Daily Facts)
REDLANDS - The Redlands Historical Museum Association has been gathering local artifacts for almost a decade for a museum about Redlands' past.
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10/12/2008
Manchester Historical Society hopes to save Olmstead House (Journal Inquirer)
MANCHESTER — The local historical society has applied to the state for recognition of a landmark farmhouse in the north end of town that is facing imminent destruction.
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10/12/2008
Oakland Historical Foundation celebrates town's 175th anniversary (Herald & Review)
OAKLAND - Cheryl Lawless is new to Oakland, but she has learned a lot about the community by helping with an exhibit on its 175th anniversary. The Oakland Historical Foundation's new display is filled with artifacts, records, news clippings and photographs relating to local history.
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10/11/2008
County Historical Society holding annual meeting Sunday (NWAnews.com)
The Washington County Historical Society hosts its 58th annual meeting at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Headquarters House at 118 E. Dickson St. in Fayetteville. (Northwest Arkansas Times)
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10/11/2008
Boonton Historical Society to host lecture, cemetery tour (Daily Record)
BOONTON -- The Boonton Historical Society will be hosting a busy day of events today.
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10/11/2008
Discussion of historical homes (Ashland Gazette)
ASHLAND - The history of several more Ashland historical homes was discussed at the Saline Ford Historical Preservation Society meeting at the Willow Point Gallery in Ashland on Oct. 2.
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10/11/2008
Wagoner Co. Historical Society to meet (Muskogee Phoenix)
The next meeting of the Wagoner County Historical Society will be at SteakOut Restaurant on Oct. 21, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Call Terry Crawford, president, at 485-8433 to make reservations, or SteakOut at 485-3810.
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10/12/2008
Historical society to present lecture (Provo Daily Herald)
History is the story of peoples and cultures through time. Frequently that story involves conflict, the clash of peoples and cultures as they vie for occupancy of land, consumption of resources, and the supremacy of ideologies and life ways. Words such as accommodation, assimilation, displacement, enslavement and annihilation come to mind when we think of centuries of cultural interaction and ...
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10/11/2008
Historical society looking to the future to save the past (Mid-Iowa News)
The Ames Historical Society has plans for a future home in order to preserve the community's past.
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  • The Apollo Guidance Computer Project - The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was developed to provide reliable real-time control for the Apollo spacecraft that carried US astronauts to the moon, 1969-1972. This site is devoted to documenting the machines, people and institutions that made this possible.
  • BESM-6 Nostalgia Page - Information about the late Soviet mainframe computer BESM-6, the last original was dismantled in 1995.
  • Blinkenlights Archaeological Institute - The Institute was established in 1997 to excavate, preserve, research, and present interesting and historically significant computing devices.
  • The Burroughs B-205 Computer - A mixture of science fiction and fact concerning the B205.
  • Charles Babbage Institute - CBI is a research center dedicated to promoting the study of the history of computing and its impact on society, and preserving relevant documentation.
  • The Computer Closet - Rescues classic microcomputers and video games from the junk heap.
  • Computer History Association of California - Chac is a nonprofit corporation, who safeguards and organizes the history of electronic computing, not only in California, but nationally and internationally. They collect and archive hardware, software and documents.
  • Cosmac Elf - History of 1802-based computing and home of the TinyELF emulator for Palm OS handhelds. Documents, scans, message board.
  • Enigma Replica - Shows all processes involved Building a replica of the German M4 Naval Enigma.
  • Historical Computer Society - International user group for old computer enthusiasts
  • Ian's 'Naff Computer Pics Page' - A page with some pictures of Honeywell-Bull mainframes and mini's (DPS-6 and DPS-7)
  • ICL 1900 Series Computers - Information about the ICL 1900 series mainframes from the 1970s, both hardware and software. The George (1S, 2, 3 and 4) series operating systems, Minimop and Maximop. Programming languages and other information.
  • John Elliott - Dedicated to computers and/or operating systems which some might describe as obsolete.
  • Largest Classic Computer Documentation Archive - Thousands of scanned classic computer documents.
  • Mechanical Aids to Calculation - History on the first automatic totalizer by Sir George Julius, mechanical aids to calculation - extracts of a paper presented to the Institution of Engineers Australia in 1920.
  • MIXTEL - Site is dedicated to the first home computer that could be bought in the UK.
  • The Oldskool PC Shrines - Honoring personal computing in the 1980s.
  • PC - History - Devoted to the history of the PC, covers all types of personal computers from 1970 to present.
  • Retro Computer Gallery - Collection of pictures of old computers, consoles, handhelds and magazines.
  • Sos-hardware.windowstothemax.com - Specifications and known problems of old hardware.
  • The SWTPC Computer Documentation Repository - Documentation for the SWTPC computer line.
  • Video Genie System - A personal tribute to an early model PC.
  • You may not know where life's road will lead you. But keep moving. God is walking with you.
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