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Ada Lovelace Notes Ada Lovelace's notes on her translation of Menebrea's paper on Babbage's Analytical Engine. Alan Turing Comprehensive Comprehensive Alan Turing Page. Atanasoff-Berry Computer Description of the very first electronic digital (single purpose) computer. Babbage by Schaffer: Pt. 3 - Calculating engines and their intelligence. Brief History of Computer Technology Brief sketch of the development of digital, electronic computers, part of a larger Web-book on computational
science; sponsored by the US Department of Energy.
Charles Babbage Biography with pictures. Charles Babbage (1791-1871) The Babbage difference engine. Charles Babbage Institute Dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of information processing. Chronology of Computer History Detailed timeline of international computing history. See also, the file museum.htm at this same URL. Sponsored by the Historical Computer Society.
Chronology of Digital Computing Machines What was the first computer, and who built it?
Herman Hollerith Short biographical summary. Historic Computer Images A collection of high resolution scans made by Mike Muuss for his Computer History archive.
J.A.N. Lee's History of Computing A collection of materials related to the history of computing
Konrad Zuse (1910-1995) The Father of Modern Computers - long article on Zuse and the Z-family of computers. Konrad Zuse's work Zuse's own discussion of the Z-family of computers. Machine That Changed The World Outline of the major topics of presentation in each of the episodes of the video series.
Micro History History of the microcomputer revolution by Frank Delaney at the Washington State University.
NetLingo A dictionary of the Internet language. Odyssey Science Center A summary of the devices leading to the development of the modern computer. Pictures from Computing History Photo archive from David Wessels of James Cook University.
Texas Instruments History History of the early TI calculators. Tools for Thought By Howard Rheingold: Ch. 2 - The First Programmer Was a Lady. US Army History of Computing Information Documents from the home of the ENIAC: The U. S. Army Research Lab.
Women & Computers From Ada and the Difference Engine to Sandra Bullock in *The Net*.
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