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 | | Chapters discuss computers in Germany (especially the work of Conrad Zuse), Bessie—the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Howard Aiken and IBM’s work with the Mark I and II at Harvard), computers at Bell Labs, the development of the ENIAC, progressing to the first generation, and a summation. |
 | | There is discussion of Stibitz and the Bell Labs computers, the work of Aiken at Harvard and Zuse in Germany, the codebreaking development of the “bombe” and “Heath Robinson” machines in Britain, the Colossus, the Atanasoff story, and chapters on both the ENIAC and EDVAC machines. |
 | | This is a heavily “designed” book, including some “computer style” text that is difficult to read, but the chief attraction is the illustrations of computers, related hardware (such as very early mouse devices) and computers within their social context–early pictures of computers at use, including as features in motion pictures. |
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