Vintage Scientific Computing

I'm using this page to track pages related to the intersection of two of my interests: scientific computing and retrocomputing. Together, these interests make a pretty niche topic

MATLAB

Here are some posts on the history of MATLAB from the official MathWorks blog:

• Wilkinson and Reinsch Handbook on Linear Algebra
• LINPACK, Linear Equation Package
• EISPACK, Matrix Eigensystem Routines
• MATLAB History, PC-MATLAB Version 1.0
• Modern MATLAB, part 1
• Modern MATLAB, part 2
• The MATLAB Technical Computing Environment
• MultiMATLAB - Interesting for the large number of MATLAB to C compilers it cites.

SAS

• SAS Institute/FDA Intellectual Partnership for Efficient Regulated Research Data Archival and Analyses
• Selection from "Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S."
• SAS grows from an on-campus project to an independent company (oral history)
• Anthony Barr's SAS History
• SAS: A hard-to-define product but simple success

SPSS

• The introduction to SPSS: statistical package for the social sciences (ISBN: 0070465312) has a lot of historical context for the development of SPSS
• History of SPSS