List of books on the history of computing

Early popularizations (not written as history)

• Edmund Callis Berkeley, Giant Brains, or Machines That Think, 1949, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-06996-5 A contemporary book about computers.
• Wallace J. Eckert and Rebecca Jones, Faster, Faster: A Simple Description of a Giant Electronic Calculator and the Problems it Solves, 1955, McGraw-Hill. (No ISBN, Dewey decimal: 510.8 E19f) A contemporaneously-written book about the NORC.

General histories

sorted by author's last name

• Roy A. Allan, A History of the Personal Computer: The People and the Technology, Allan Publishing, ISBN 0-9689108-0-7, available online (PDF format)
• William Aspray (editor), Computing Before Computers, 1990, Iowa State University Press, ISBN 0-8138-0047-1, available online (PDF format)
• Stan Augarten, Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers, 1984, Ticknor & Fields, ISBN 0-89919-302-1
• Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray, Computer: A History of the Information Machine, BasicBooks/HarperCollins, 1996, 1st edition, ISBN 0-465-02989-2
• Paul Ceruzzi, A History of Modern Computing, 2000, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-03255-4 (hardcover), ISBN 0-262-53169-0 (paperback)
• Kenneth Flamm, Creating the Computer: Government, Industry and High Technology, 1987, Brookings Institution, ISBN 978-0815728498
• Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine,Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, 1999, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-135892-7
• Paul Gannon, ' 'Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret, 2006, Atlantic Books, 1-84354-330-3, (hardback)
• Herman Goldstine,The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann, 1972, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0691023670 (paperback)
• Mike Hally, Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age, 2005, Joseph Henry Press, ISBN 0-309-09630-8
• Peggy Kidwell and Paul Ceruzzi, Landmarks in Digital Computing: A Smithsonian Pictorial History, 1994, Smithsonian, ISBN 1-56098-311-6
• Gordon Laing, Digital Retro: The Evolution and Design of the Personal Computer, 2004, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-7821-4330-X
• Simon Lavington, Early British Computers, 1980, Digital Press (US) and Manchester University Press (UK), ISBN 0-932376-08-8. Available online
• Herman Lukoff, From Dits to Bits... : A Personal History of the Electronic Computer, 1979. Robotics Press, ISBN 0-89661-002-0
• David Lundstrom, A Few Good Men from Univac, 1987, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-62075-8
• Scott McCartney, ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer, 1999, Walker and Company, ISBN 0-8027-1348-3
• Nicholas Metropolis, J. Howlett, and Gian-Carlo Rota (editors), A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century, 1980, Academic Press, ISBN 0-12-491650-3
• René Moreau, The Computer Comes of Age: The People, the Hardware, and the Software, 1984, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-13194-3
• Brian Randell, The Origins Of Digital Computers, selected papers, Third Edition, 1982, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-11319-3
• Raúl Rojas and Ulf Hashagen (editors), The First Computers: History and Architectures, 2000, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-18197-5.
• Scientific American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks - September 1991 single issue devoted entirely to the three subjects listed in the title.
• Dennis Shasta and Cathy Lazere, Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists, 1995, Copernicus, ISBN 0-387-97992-1
• Robert Slater, Portraits in Silicon, 1987, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-19262-4
• Stan Viet, Stan Viet's History of the Personal Computer, 1993, WorldComm, ISBN 1-56664-023-7
• Michael R. Williams, A History of Computing Technology , 1997, IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0-8186-7739-2
• Jeffrey Yost, The Computer Industry, 2005, Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-32844-7

Business history

• Martin Campbell-Kelly, From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry, 2003, MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-53262-X (paperback)

• Paul Gannon, Trojan Horses and National Champions: A History of the European computing and telecommunications industry, 1997, Aptamatic Books, ISBN 0-953-02840-2 (hardback)

Military and government

• Jon Agar, The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer (History of Computing), MIT Press 2003, ISBN 0-262-01202-2
• Paul N. Edwards, The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, MIT Press 1997, ISBN 0-262-55028-8
• Arthur L. Norberg, Judy E. O'Neill, Kerry J. Freedman, Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology (Paperback)), Johns Hopkins University Press 2000, ISBN 0-8018-6369-4
• Herman Goldstine, James Pomerene, Charles Smith, Final Progress Report on the Physical Realization of an Electronic Computing Instrument, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, January 1954, available online {typescript images in PDF format)

Social history

• Dennis Hayes, Behind the Silicon Curtain.The Seductions of Work in a Lonely Era, paper, South End Press 1989, ISBN 0-89608-350-0

Wikibooks' [[wikibooks:|]] has more about this subject:

The Computer Revolution: A Timeline

Further reading

• See history of computing hardware#References

External links

• Arithmometre.org, The reference about Thomas de Colmar's arithmometers
• Yahoo Computers and History
• "All-Magnetic Logic" computer developed at SRI International, in 1961
• Famous Names in the History of Computing. Free source for history of computing biographies.
• Stephen White's excellent computer history site (the above article is a modified version of his work, used with Permission)
• Computer History Museum
• Soviet Calculators Collection - a big collection of Soviet calculators, computers, computer mices and other devices
• Logarithmic timeline of greatest breakthroughs since start of computing era in 1623
• IEEE computer history timeline
• Konrad Zuse, inventor of first working programmable digital computer
• The Moore School Lectures and the British Lead in Stored Program Computer Development (1946–1953), article from Virtual Travelog
• Technology— and-Society/STS-035Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm MIT STS.035 — History of Computing from MIT OpenCourseWare for undergraduate level
• Key Resources in the History of Computing
• German computer museum with still runnable computer machines
• Charles Babbage Institute
• Italian computer database of brands
• A Bibliography of the Personal Computer The book contains over 280 book notations and over 250 periodical notations. It is the most extensive bibliography available on the history of the personal computer. (PDF format)
• History of computing bibliography at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota

British history

• Early British Computers available online
• Resurrection Bulletin of the Computer Conservation Society (UK) 1990–2006
• The story of the Manchester Mark I, 50th Anniversary website at the University of Manchester
• Rowayton Historical Society Birthplace of the World's First Business Computer