Wiki143:WikiProject Computing/List of books on the history of computing

Omitted from this list are:

Books for younger readers

Books about end-user computer applications

Bibliographies and dictionaries

• . Contains over 280 book notations and over 250 periodical notations.
• Compiled at the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory (there is also a 1956 edition)
• |url= http://www.cbi.umn.edu/hostedpublications/ }} Contains 2500 entries.
• Contains 4500 entries.
• a directory to 5,000+ websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry. You can search it, browse it according to category ...
• {microfiche)

Chronologies, surveys

• (British survey of DP managers)
• (multiple editions, 6th edition - 1969/70}
• (lists manufacturers, installations. multiple editions, 6th edition - 1968/69)
• (republished 1950)
• the online file does not include the Glossary, pages 247-272
• Another online copy is available here.
• online document includes pages 1–327, 375-378

Biographies

Biographies appropriate to specific sections are generally placed in those sections. Those here are collections or for individuals whose activities span multiple sections.

• (1992 edition, Underwood Books, Template:ISBN)
• (the two Lee books are likely the same book, one printed in the U.S, the other in England)

General history (from earliest times to the present)

• Fagen, M. D. (editor), National Service in War and Peace (1925-1975), Volume II of A History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System (Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1978)
• (trans. of 1994 French ed.)
• (see also Herb Grosch's review inIEEE Annals of the History of Computing vol.15.1 1993)

Before digital computers (to about the 1940s)

• . Extensive coverage of digital and analog computational devices, including a brief entry for the Zuse computer - a small digital computer constructed in Germany. Bibliography, pages 229-255
• (Part 1 "Desk Calculators and Punched Card machines")

Digital calculators

Abacus

Mechanical Calculators

• Translation 1992
• Reprinted: Arno, 1972.

Analog computation

Analog computers

• (Radiation Laboratory Series vol.27)

Slide Rules

• (reprint of 1910 edition, with a 1920 paper added)

Graphical computation, Nomograms, Planimeter, Integrometer, Integraph, ...

Punched cards, unit record equipment

• Compiled at the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory (there is also a 1956 edition)

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Early giants, mechanical and vacuum tube calculators/computers (1940s, early 50s)

• A contemporary book about computers.
• (A contemporaneously-written book about the NORC.)
• Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing vol.8, 0-262-01084-4
• Charles Babbage Institute Reprint Series for the History of Computing vol.7, 0-262-08152-0

Early ... Alan Turing

• (Paperback: Template:ISBN.)

Early ... John von Neumann

• reprinted in Stern, 1981

Modern history (from the 1950s to the present)

• Scientific American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks - September 1991 single issue devoted entirely to the three subjects listed in the title.
• (General Electric)

Military and government

See the Early Giants, above for those early machines developed for military or government applications

Personal computers

• . Contains over 280 book notations and over 250 periodical notations.

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• The docudrama Pirates of Silicon Valley is based on this book.
• (revised ed. Microsoft Press, 1987, Template:ISBN)

Social history

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• (from the 1st ed. cover ... the relationship between law, cyberspace and social organization.)
• Template:Noble1984
• ( ...considered the definitive study of information technology in the workplace)

Conference Proceedings

• International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 9 (TC 9): Relationship between Computers and Society, publications 1974-present (some proceedings are available online, see here).

See also

• Category:History of computing
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/List of books on the history of computing 2