[Air-L] History of Computers

[C.H.]

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created
the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson (2015-10-06)

Not a textbook but a good read.


On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 8:11 PM 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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