[Air-l] History of computer

[Antonio Roversi]

Dear all

these are the references i got from many of you about the history of 
computing.

Books and Essays:

Pfaffenberger, Bryan (1988)  "The Social Meaning of the 
Personal Computer: Or, Why the Personal Computer Revolution 
was No Revolution".  Anthropological Quarterly, Vol 61, pp 
39-47

A history of modern computing; Ceruzzi, Paul E.

Reckoners : the prehistory of the digital computer, from relays to the stored 
program concept, 1935-1945 / Paul E. Ceruzzi

Peter Salus: A Quarter Century of Unix (1994)

Janet Abbate: Inventing the Internet

Campbell-Kelly and Aspray: Computer: A History of the Information Machine

Fire in the Valley: The Making of the
Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger & Michael Swaine (1984)

Paul Edwards: The Closed World

Tracy Kidder: The Soul of a New Machine

Bardini, Thierry. 1995. The Social Construction of the Personal Computer 
User. Journal of Communication, Summer.

=97=97=97. 2000. Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the 
Origins of Personal Computing. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Edwards, Paul N. 1996. The closed world: computers and the politics of =
discourse in Cold War America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hafner, Katie, and Matthew Lyon. 1998. Where wizards stay up late: the =
origins of the Internet. New York: Touchstone.

Rheingold, Howard. 2000. Tools for Thought: The History and Future of =
Mind-Expanding Technology. 2nd Rev. ed: MIT Press.

Smith, Douglas K., and Robert C. Alexander. 1988. Fumbling the Future: =
How Xerox invented, then ignored, the first personal computer. New York: =
William Morrow and Company, Inc.

Waldrop, M. Mitchell. 2001. The Dream Machine. J. C. R. Licklider and =
the Revolution That Made Computing Personal. New York: Penguin.

Winston, Brian. 1998. Media technology & society: a history from the =
telegraph to the internet. London: Routledge


Online Resources:

The Triumph of the Nerds http://www.pbs.org/nerds/

Nerds 2.01 http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~bakardji/COMS380/schedule.html Week 9

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~bakardji/computing/revolution.html

http://www.hum.au.dk/ckulturf/pages/publications/nof/tsm/abstract.html

http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/

Usenet group alt.folklore.computers

A PowerPoint presentation:  
http://www.pitt.edu/~poole/historyofcomputers_files/v3_document.htm


Hope it helps

Antonio