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, [http://www.archive.org/details/A_History_of_the_Personal_Computer available online] (PDF format)
*William Aspray (editor), "Computing Before Computers", 1990, Iowa State University Press, ISBN 0-8138-0047-1, [http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/CBC.html 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, "", 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. [http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/EarlyBritish.html 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, [http://web.archive.org/web/20050331183539/http://www.stanford.edu/~lharcke/programming/IAS_Final_Report.pdf 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

Further reading

* See history of computing hardware#References

External links

* [http://www.arithmometre.org/ Arithmometre.org] , The reference about Thomas de Colmar's arithmometers
* [http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/History/ Yahoo Computers and History]
* [http://www.sri.com/about/timeline/allmagnetic-logic.html "All-Magnetic Logic"] computer developed at SRI International, in 1961
* [http://www.algana.co.uk/FamousNames/FamousNamesFrameset.htm "Famous Names in the History of Computing."] Free source for history of computing biographies.
* [http://ox.compsoc.net/~swhite/history.html Stephen White's excellent computer history site] (the above article is a modified version of his work, used with Permission)
* [http://www.computerhistory.org/ Computer History Museum]
* [http://www.rk86.com/frolov/ Soviet Calculators Collection] - a big collection of Soviet calculators, computers, computer mices and other devices
* [http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/computerhistory.html Logarithmic timeline of greatest breakthroughs since start of computing era in 1623]
* [http://www.computer.org/portal/cms_docs_ieeecs/ieeecs/about/history/timeline.pdf IEEE computer history timeline]
* [http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/zuse.html Konrad Zuse, inventor of first working programmable digital computer]
* [http://www.virtualtravelog.net/entries/000047.html "The Moore School Lectures and the British Lead in Stored Program Computer Development (1946–1953)"] , article from Virtual Travelog
* [http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Science— Technology— and-Society/STS-035Spring2004/CourseHome/index.htm MIT STS.035 — History of Computing] from MIT OpenCourseWare for undergraduate level
* [http://www.sigcis.org/?q=node/10 Key Resources in the History of Computing]
* [http://www.technikum29.de/en/ German computer museum with still runnable computer machines]
* [http://www.cbi.umn.edu Charles Babbage Institute]
* [http://www.1000bit.net/database.asp?by=S_NOM Italian computer database of brands]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/ABibliographyOfThePersonalComputer 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)
* [http://www.tc.umn.edu/~tmisa/biblios/hist_computing.html History of computing bibliography] at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota

British history

* [http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/EarlyBritish.html "Early British Computers" available online]
*" [http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/res/res_home.htm Resurrection] " Bulletin of the Computer Conservation Society (UK) 1990–2006
* [http://www.computer50.org/ "The story of the Manchester Mark I"] , 50th Anniversary website at the University of Manchester
* [http://www.rowayton.org/rhs/Computers/welcome.html Rowayton Historical Society] Birthplace of the World's First Business Computer