[Air-L] History of Computers

[Joly MacFie]

I just realised I linked to the wrong book there. Try
https://www.amazon.com/Gutenberg-Google-History-Our-Future/dp/0815735324

On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 6:27 AM Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

> I am just reading Tom Wheeler's From Gutenberg to Google
> <https://books.google.com/books/about/From_Gutenberg_to_Google.html?id=rd57F8IjyF0C&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false>.
> While a history of networks and their impact, rather than computing, it
> does cover many aspects, and is extremely well written.
>
> Might work as "more reading".
>
> joly
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 8:32 PM Xanat Meza via Air-L <
> air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> this one has a sociological perspective on the history of computers:
>> Agar, J. (2003), The government machine: A revolutionary history of the
>> computer, MIT press
>> Xanat V. Meza
>>
>> Ph.D. candidate - Kansei, Behavioral and Brain SciencesUniversity of
>> Tsukuba
>> M.A. Media and Communication
>> Yeungnam University
>> B.D. Graphic Communication Design
>> Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
>>
>>
>>     El sábado, 23 de marzo de 2019 4:36:53 a. m. GMT+9, Shulman, Stu <
>> stu at texifter.com> escribió:
>>
>>  The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
>> <
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_History,_a_Theory,_a_Flood
>> >
>> James Gleick
>>
>> For sure, the most important book/audiobook I have ever read (about 6
>> times).
>>
>> ~Stu
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 3:32 PM Meg Leta Jones <Meg.Jones at georgetown.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Try Computer: A History of the Information Machine by Martin
>> Campbell-Kelly
>> > and William Aspray
>> >
>> > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 3:17 PM Peter Timusk <peterotimusk at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Yes, there is a good 1980s book from MIT Press that I like for this.
>> > >
>> > >  the Computer Comes of Age
>> > > The People, the Hardware, and the Software
>> > >
>> > > By René Moreau
>> > >
>> > > Translated by J. Howlett
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computer-comes-age
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 15:11 Adriana de Souza e Silva, <
>> aasilva at ncsu.edu>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Hi all,
>> > > >
>> > > > I’m looking for a text (book, article, a few chapters) that tells
>> the
>> > > > history of computers, starting from Charles Babbage and Ada
>> Lovelace’s
>> > > > Analytical Engine to present days. This is for a 200-level
>> > undergraduate
>> > > > class, so I’m trying to summarize the topic as much as possible, to
>> > give
>> > > > students a general overview in a couple of classes.
>> > > >
>> > > > Any suggestions?
>> > > > _________________________
>> > > > Adriana de Souza e Silva
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