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What would be a good, more academic overview of computing history? Do you have any specific book recommendations? I'd love to read a more "citation-based" versi
by citelao 3y ago
What would be a good, more academic overview of computing history? Do you have any specific book recommendations? I'd love to read a more "citation-based" version.
- nappy 3y agoNot sure about academic history, but in a single volume, this does a good job on early 20th century computer history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_Factory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_Factory
- mjbrusso 3y agoThe First Computers History and Architectures Edited by Raúl Rojas and Ulf Hashagen https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262681377/the-first-computers/ https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262681377/the-first-computers/
- cfmcdonald 3y agoIMO the best overall "soup to nuts" survey of the history of computers is Campbell-Kelly, et. al., "Computer: A History of the Information Machine." Specifically on the relation of telecommunications to computers I will toot my own horn and recommend my book, McDonald, "How the Telegraph, Telephone, and Radio Created the Computer."