[Air-L] History of Computers

[Peter Timusk]

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?
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