Hi, my name is Albert Ok and I am a Junior currently attending Salesian High School ( A privite Catholic high school located in Richmond CA., if you are curious). Well in my history class my teacher decided to give us a project she calls the ISearch project. In this project we get to pick our own topic. I chose to do my project on the history of the computer, not a specific brand of any sort just THE computer. Well for this project there are written reports due and such, but we also have to either interview someone or visit a place. I had no idea of a place I could visit which related to the history of computers, well in my area at least. What I really need is maybe a Computer/Systems Engineer I could interview or a someone who has worked with computers for an extremely long time. My interview will only take about 5 - 10 minutes, so it won't be that inconvient, I think. So please decide to help this poor student. A phone number, email address, AOL screen name, ICQ number, or any messenger of sort will be perfect. Welp, thanks for taking the time to read this.


-Albert Ok:)

Why not search google on this search phrase: History Of The PC ??

Cheers :D
Darren

Ahh, an I-Search paper... those suck! I remember doing one at my HS... never again. :)

I'm not sure if you'd mind about an hours travel but there is the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, http://www.computerhistory.org/

Originally posted by PCAdmin
Why not search google on this search phrase: History Of The PC ??

Cheers :D
Darren

Cause "of" and "the" don't get included ;)

You can start with this computer: Abacus ;)

if you could slightly change the topic from "History of Computers" to "History of WHT" then you will find many takers.

actually I believe there is a museum devoted to the topic. You should also search the military archives as their early use/history of the computer will be well documented.

The following links may be helpful:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/jva/jva-archive.shtml
http://www.computer50.org/
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h96000/h96566kc.htm

you should have done it on the history of hacking, people would think you were cool if you did that. Err... at least it worked for me :D .

If you can do it via phone. I can help you out.

exept@pureping.net