[Air-L] History of Computers

[Alan Sondheim]

A couple of things - there are texts also on the various forms of the 
abacus - which was the main calculator for maybe a thousand years in a 
number of places; that would be useful, since it's essentially a noisy 
digital object. Also highly recommend vis-a-vis the Internet, Peter Salus' 
Casting the Net: From Arpanet to Internet and beyond... forward by Vincent 
Cerf - Addison-Wesley 1995; this contains highly-annotated material on the 
technology but also the culture of the early Net; for me, it's been a 
primary source -

- Alan

>    > 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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