Resources for
Lab 1.3
Labs
- Ada Lovelace Notes
- Ada Lovelace's notes on her translation of Menebrea's paper on Babbage's Analytical Engine.
- Alan Turing Comprehensive
- Comprehensive Alan Turing Page.
- Atanasoff-Berry Computer
- Description of the very first electronic digital (single purpose) computer.
- Babbage
- by Schaffer: Pt. 3 - Calculating engines and their intelligence.
- Brief History of Computer Technology
- Brief sketch of the development of digital, electronic computers, part of a larger Web-book on computational
science; sponsored by the US Department of Energy.
- Charles Babbage
- Biography with pictures.
- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
- The Babbage difference engine.
- Charles Babbage Institute
- Dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of information processing.
- Chronology of Computer History
- Detailed timeline of international computing history. See also, the file museum.htm at this same URL. Sponsored by the Historical Computer Society.
- Chronology of Digital Computing Machines
- What was the first computer, and who built it?
- Computer History 0000 0001
- Short history of computing at Mississippi State.
- Herman Hollerith
- Short biographical summary.
- Historic Computer Images
- A collection of high resolution scans made by Mike Muuss for his Computer History archive.
- J.A.N. Lee's History of Computing
- A collection of materials related to the history of computing
- Konrad Zuse (1910-1995)
- The Father of Modern Computers - long article on Zuse and the Z-family of computers.
- Konrad Zuse's work
- Zuse's own discussion of the Z-family of computers.
- Machine That Changed The World
- Outline of the major topics of presentation in each of the episodes of the video series.
- Micro History
- History of the microcomputer revolution by Frank Delaney at the Washington State University.
- NetLingo
- A dictionary of the Internet language.
- Odyssey Science Center
- A summary of the devices leading to the development of the modern computer.
- Pictures from Computing History
- Photo archive from David Wessels of James Cook University.
- Texas Instruments History
- History of the early TI calculators.
- Tools for Thought
- By Howard Rheingold: Ch. 2 - The First Programmer Was a Lady.
- US Army History of Computing Information
- Documents from the home of the ENIAC: The U. S. Army Research Lab.
- Women & Computers
- From Ada and the Difference Engine to Sandra Bullock in *The Net*.
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