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early computers

Description: Early computers are the first generations of electronic or electromechanical computing machines, studied in the history of computing and technology.
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A History of Control Engineering 1930-1955
1993 · S. Bennett · Institution of Engineering and Technology eBooks · 300
The origins of bioinformatics
2000 · Joel B. Hagen · Nature Reviews Genetics · 178
A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century
1983 · John G. Brainerd, N. Metropolis, et al. · Technology and Culture · 141
IBM's Early Computers
1987 · Kendall Birr, Charles J. Bashe · The American Historical Review · 128
LEO: the incredible story of the world's first business computer
1998 · Choice Reviews Online · 105
Structuring the information age: life insurance and technology in the twentieth century
2006 · Yates, JoAnne 1951- · Choice Reviews Online · 94
Discursive strategies and radical technological change: Multilevel discourse analysis of the early computer (1947–1958)
2015 · Steven J. Kahl, Stine Grodal · Strategic Management Journal · 91
The first computers—History and architectures
2001 · Computers & Mathematics with Applications · 89
Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956.
1994 · M. J. French, James W. Cortada · The Economic History Review · 88
The chromium-plated tabulator: institutionalizing an electronic revolution, 1954-1958
2001 · T. Haigh · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 78
The Early Development of Programming Languages**The preparation of this paper has been supported in part by National Science Foundation Grant No. MCS 72-03752 A03, by the Office of Naval Research contract N00014-76-C-0330, and by IBM Corporation. The authors wish to thank the originators of the languages cited for their many helpful comments on early drafts of this paper.††Reprinted from J. Belzer, A. G. Holzman, and A. Kent (eds.), “Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology,” Vol. 6, pp. 419–493. Dekker, New York, 1977. Courtesy of Marcel Dekker, Inc.
1980 · DONALD E. KNUTH, LUIS TRABB PARDO · Elsevier eBooks · 77
The first computers: history and architectures
2000 · Raúl Rojas, Ulf Hashagen · 68
From ENIAC to UNIVAC: An Appraisal of the Eckert-Mauchly Computers
1983 · M. S. Mander, Nancy Stern · Technology and Culture · 67
Roberto Busa, S.J., and the Invention of the Machine-Generated Concordance
1999 · Thomas Winter · Lincoln (University of Nebraska) · 63
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Edmund Berkeley and the Social Responsibility of Computer Professionals
2015 · Bernadette Longo · 56
A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Teashops and the World's First Office Computer
2004 · Information Technology and People · 56
Early British Computers
1980 · S.H. Lavington · 56
Early British Computers
1981 · J. Howlett · Electronics and Power · 51
`Mathematical Machines' of the Cold War
2001 · Slava Gerovitch · Social Studies of Science · 48
The Early Computers of Konrad Zuse, 1935 to 1945
1981 · Paul E. Ceruzzi · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 48
Computers Then and Now
1968 · Maurice V. Wilkes · Journal of the ACM · 44
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The World in a Machine: Origins and Impacts of Early Computerized Global Systems Models
2000 · Paul N. Edwards · The MIT Press eBooks · 42
Die Rechenmaschinen von Konrad Zuse
1998 · Springer eBooks · 41
The Effect of Science on the Second World War
2000 · Guy Hartcup · Palgrave Macmillan eBooks · 38
Archaelogy of computers
1972 · Franz L. Alt · Communications of the ACM · 37
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