Hey everyone,
I'm stuck in an apartment in Switzerland as most of you are probably somewhere else (except if you're British, then you're probably fighting zombie apocalypse by now, right?)
My problem is the following: I'm just starting research for my master thesis in the social history of computers (1975 - 1990) but for the next few weeks all the archives in Switzerland are closed and all my beautiful sources are gone.
So can anyone help me to find a good digitalized online source that I can work with? I'm specifically interested in the use of the computer as a tool and toy for hobbyists and the early hacker scene. A digital version of some early computer magazine would be great for example.
Cheers and thx for your help,
nico
Do you know about PLATO? There's a lot of stuff about that project digitized online.
Records from UIUC (its former home)
Links out at the bottom of Wikipedia article (lots of random pockets of non-archival personal scans etc)
Be sure to look at Grapenotes, they're a great early social computing artifact
There's also the well-known computer magazine collection at Archive.org, over 20,000 magazines should keep you busy...