Supplementary reading:

Digital computers: contemporary history by Paul Ceruzzi, Smithsonian Institution. From the Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 4th edition, eds. Ralston, Reilly, Hemmendinger (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2000)

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Useful links:

Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present, with related links.

CPU information center

the Red Hill guide: pages on CPU history, motherboards, hard drives.

Adrian Offerman's Chip list (historical) and recent (mostly Intel).

CPU Museum

Microprocessor instruction set cards

Mark Smotherman's pages on computer architecture history, with historical essays and many links

Chronology of personal computers

ram, dram, sram, sdram, edo, bedo .... Ten years old but still useful.

Microprocessor timeline, from the Computer Museum History Center

Moore's Law graphs (also photos of CPU chips), Intel transistor counts, and Intel's press kit for the law's 40th anniversary

Half of DYSEAC (1954), the first portable computer (12 tons).

Last updated 5 January 2008