The Modern Computer

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• Thomas Watson [founder of IBM]
• The Birth of the Information Age: The Start of the ENIAC computer
• Women in the History of Technology and Science
• The History of Computing [a major site]
• The History of Computers and Computing [a major site]
• Charles Babbage and the Difference Engine
• The Charles Babbage Institute / Center for History of Computing, University of Minnesota
• Apple 1 Computer [an online exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution]
• Alvin Turing: Historical Background
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• John von Neumann: Historical Background
• Data General [the firm chronicled in Tracy Kidder's Soul of the New Machine] and a Data General Virtual Exhibit on the history of computing
• The parent company of Data General, DEC

ENIAC computer, ca. 1946 (courtesy the Smithsonian Institution)