INTRODUCTION

DIGITAL AIDS TO COMPUTATION

    The Quipu

    Counters and the Abacus    

    Napier's Rods

    The Slate and Hand Reckoning

    Mathematical Tables

MECHANICAL CALCULATORS

    Pascal and the Adding Machine of Jean Lepine

    Jean Marie Jacquard and the Jacquard Loom

    Charles Xavier Thomas and the Arithmometer

    Victor Schilt's Key-Driven Adding Machine

    Georg Scheutz and the Difference Engine

    Frank S. Baldwin and Pinwheel Calculating Machines

    Dorr E. Felt's Comptometer

    W.S. Burroughs's Adding Machine

    The Ritty Cash Register

ELECTROMECHANICAL CALCULATORS

    Herman Hollerith and the Hollerith Tabulating System

    IBM Accouonting Machine

    The Bombe

    Totalisator

    Howard Aiken and the Mark I

    Bell Labs Model V

ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS

    The ENIAC

    John von Neumann and the IAS Computer

    The Whirlwind

    UNIVAC I and the Beginning of the Computer Industry

    IBM System 360

FLIGHT CONTROL COMPUTERS AND THE MINI

    PDP-8

    Gemini Digital Computer

    Minuteman Guidance Computer

    The Apollo Guidance Computer

    DEC VAX 11/780

THE PERSONAL COMPUTER

    The Green Machine and the HP9100A

    HP-35 Handheld Calculator

    The Altair 8800

    Apple II

    The IBM PC

    Osborne

    TRS-80 Model 100

    Macintosh

NETWORKING AND THE PERSONAL WORKSTATION

    The Xerox Alto

    Cray-1 Supercomputer

    SUN

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

LIST OF NEGATIVE NUMBERS FOR ORDERING PHOTOGRPAHS

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