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.
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