Many overviews of the history of computing have been produced over the years. Your starting
point should be Computer: A History of the Information Machine (Campbell-Kelly & Aspray, 1996).
Created with the support of the Sloan foundation, it is written by two of the field’s most prominent scholars but intended to be accessible to a general audience. Unlike earlier synthetic accounts it shows the
computer as a tool designed to tackle specific applications, going back into history to explore its
relationship to earlier office machines, communication technologies, and calculating aids. It mixes the
business history of computer firms with the development of key computing technologies. Paul Ceruzzi’s
A History of Modern Computing (P. E. Ceruzzi, 1998) makes a good complement to Computer. Ceruzzi’s
book has less to say about applications, and skips the digital computer’s forebears completely to launch
the story in the mid-1940s. Ceruzzi provides more detail on the architectural development of computers
and better coverage of the minicomputer, which he argues for persuasively as the source of today’s
personal computing technologies. His book focuses more on technical history and has a somewhat more
episodic structure. A more recent summary, intended to be accessible to high school students, is (Swedin,
2005). Several older and journalistic overviews exist, but you will find little cause to consult them.
Many overviews of the history of computing have been produced over the years. Your starting
point should be Computer: A History of the Information Machine (Campbell-Kelly & Aspray, 1996).
Created with the support of the Sloan foundation, it is written by two of the field’s most prominent scholars but intended to be accessible to a general audience. Unlike earlier synthetic accounts it shows the
computer as a tool designed to tackle specific applications, going back into history to explore its
relationship to earlier office machines, communication technologies, and calculating aids. It mixes the
business history of computer firms with the development of key computing technologies. Paul Ceruzzi’s
A History of Modern Computing (P. E. Ceruzzi, 1998) makes a good complement to Computer. Ceruzzi’s
book has less to say about applications, and skips the digital computer’s forebears completely to launch
the story in the mid-1940s. Ceruzzi provides more detail on the architectural development of computers
and better coverage of the minicomputer, which he argues for persuasively as the source of today’s
personal computing technologies. His book focuses more on technical history and has a somewhat more
episodic structure. A more recent summary, intended to be accessible to high school students, is (Swedin,
2005). Several older and journalistic overviews exist, but you will find little cause to consult them.
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