I have an over-stocked browser bookmark database (5736 sites and rising) - here are some more possibly useful references. http://www.computerchronology.com/ gives a fancy multimedia timeline. http://www.dejavu.org/ is a cute simulation of what the web looked like in the browsers of the time. You might find some useful raw materials at http://www.stanford.edu/group/itsp/ and you could mine the links at http://vmoc.museophile.org/ - The Virtual Museum of Computing. The Charles Babbage Institute seems to have a lot of the original documentation http://www.cbi.umn.edu/ http://www.computerhistory.org/ is the site of the Computer Museum at Mountainview California which has some timelines etc of its own. For an entertaining (but probably biased) read that could be usefully critiqued in a serious discussion of the origins of the personal computer, you might want to look at Cringely, R. X. (1996) Accidental Empires : How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date, (Rev. 2nd) Penguin, London. It was used by the Open University for their first year course when I taught it in 2000. There are two companion sites for it - http://www.pbs.org/nerds/ and http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/ - the latter bringing the programme up to date with the Internet (as of 1998). You might be able to get the series on tape for students to watch as well. -- David Brake, PhD researcher in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page) and http://blog.org/ (weblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/dealingwithemail/> gives ordering info