Other than the standard search engines or Wikipedia, I don't know where to find a good history of language or hardware. I'm only aware of these examples because they were part of my "comparative programming languages" course in the early 90s.

I suspect this thread will fade without much more notice, but I'm half expecting someone to come along and set me straight that all this stuff was really invented in the 50s or 60s :-) (SNOBOL, Algol, Simula, or PL/I ???)