well, it happened between 1894 and 1935, as the bell artifacts collection tells. the "millionaire" was invented by a swiss, otto steiger. | some say he is from munich, some say he is swiss and lived in munich, no sé)

also in the collection: sharp's elsi mate el8048

there is a student site telling the history of russian stchoty, aka abacus. | praised by ieee, the never-dare-to-remember-my-url.org.

addiator, correntator, exactus and maximator are names for so called blechschieber

founded with other former sperry rand univac employees control data corporation and was giving ibm a hard time, back in the 60s and 70s, some say 80s ...

PLATO" (an online educational/authoring system developed coincidentally at the University of Illinois in the early 1960s | peter schow

academician a.ershov's archive, highly recommended.

business letters of the computing center of ussr as and the computing center of the siberian branch of ussr as (1959-1974) correspondence with zemanek 1984, preparation for the 25th anniversary of ifip. or another interesting example: letter from shirley marks, rand corp about their joss project, 1968. | again paul armer ;)

however it is our continuing policy to disseminate general information on joss to all who desire it

joss reports

the newsletters '71 are freely available.

may 71: the mobile console in an ideal world, there would be as many blue consoles (and corresponding channels to the joss computer) as there are potential users at a moment in time. lacking such a utopia, we must allocate our limited resources ... the wheels of the console bring the computer into your office as a handy tool, along with the telephone, the chalkboard, and the well-stuffed bookcase ...

glad i missed the time-sharing area, even some recall this time as social community building. co-operative work, ie