2008 Featured Stories
There are always more super stories at DigiBarn Radio and DigiBarn TV!
Rob Barnaby on the history of WordStar, IMSAI, Micropro and more! (June 2008)
2007 Featured Stories
The restoration of the LINC,"the World's First Personal Computer"
(all year 2007)
Dwight Elvey gives us two video tours: Jef Raskin's Canon Cat and the classic ASR-33 Teletype (April 2007)
2006 Featured Stories
A Digibarn special event: Apple @ 30 - 1976, Apple in the Garage (was held Nov 4th, 2006)
The Processor Technology Sol-20 30th birthday event was held at the Vintage Computer Festival (Nov 5, 2006)
The (Xerox Star Icon) World According to Norm Cox (posted October 2006)
New! Ken Sumrall and playing Spacewar! on the PDP-1 (and Snow Flake and music!) (Sept 2006)
Special stories surrounding the 25th Anniversary of the launch of the IBM Personal Computer 5150
(all year, 2006)
The World of Xerox at the Digibarn
- or how Xerox changed the world but
nobody knows about it!
(all year 2006)
Brooke and the story of Felt & Tarrant and the comptometers (June 2006)
The computers and history of Southwest Technical Products Corp (May 2006)
IBM Corporate Ads, 1948-1954
See how the computer giant defined the value of computing for the public 50 years ago! (Jan 2006)
Mark Goldstein's story on MicroAge, Computer Music, Office and Home of the Future
and more! (Jan 2006)
2005 Featured Stories
Report on the 30th birthday of the Homebrew Computer Club "Homebrew@30"
A special event was held by the DigiBarn at the Vintage Computer Festival 8.0, November 5-6, 2005
The story of the DigiBarn's Cray Supercomputer collection (October, 2005)
An interview with JJ Webb on the birth of the virus scanner, poetry on the (early) Internet
and much much more (April 1005).
The Story of the Xerox 9700 Electronic (Laser) Printing System (March 2005)
We marked Jef Raskin's passing on February 26, 2005.
See our pages with our last interviews with Jef and our special feature:
Jef Raskin a life of design (February 2005).
Mike Riddle relates the History of AutoCAD, EasyCAD, FastCAD and CAD in general (January 2005)
2004 Featured Stories
The Woz Wonderbook is here! (December 2004)
Maze War 30 Year Retrospective (special event, November 2004)
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, original 1975 brochure (a peek into the birth of computer science as a discipline) (Nov 2004)
Jef Raskin's Story "Meeting Merlin" (posted Summer 2004)
The Xerox Alto 30th Birthday Celebration (a special event, October 2003)
The Intran Story (as told by those who were there - Fall 2003 and ongoing)
Is this the first Microsoft
BASIC released to Apple Computer?
You be the judge! (Feb 2003)
Interview with Wendell Sander, father of the Apple III
(interview by David Ottalini from 1986 - Feb 2003)
Visit of DigiBarn Curator
Bruce Damer to The Smithsonian Institution's Information Age exhibit
in Washington DC
(January 2003)
Maze War.. the first
3D multi user game, lives again at the DigiBarn, read its story!
2002 Featured Stories
John Redant and Bruce Damer's reworking of the famous "Bushy
Tree" diagram of visual computing systems (Summer 2002 and ongoing)
F-Robert Trépanier's history in the Canadian Computer Business from the 1950s (July 2002)
Arrival
of the Cray 1 Supercomputer and Cray Q2 Prototype at the DigiBarn
(April 2002)
Incredible
stories in the first and second issues of BYTE Magazine (Spring 2002)
NEW: See
Alan O Freier's history of the Xerox "D*" Machines from
Dolphin, to Dorado to Dandelion (Xerox 8010 Star) here. (Feb
2002)
NEW: Daniel Kottke's Amazing Apple Relics (Feb 2002)
Butler Lampson's famous 1972 Memo "Why Alto"? (Jan 2002)
Dave Curbow's extensive Xerox Star Historical Documents (Jan 2002 and ongoing).
