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The Early History of Computing

All of the following link to external websites.

• The Computer Conservation Society's ftp archive
• The National Archive for the History of Computing
• The Virtual Museum of Computing
• Charles Babbage Institute, a comprehensive Information Processing archive
• The (Portuguese) Museu Virtual da Informatica
• The Atanasoff Virtual Archive (Atanasoff created the first Electronic Digital Computer)
• Bletchley Park, home of the World War II code breakers and now of the Colossus rebuild project. A separate website by Tony Sale, who ran the Colossus rebuild project, specifically covers the History, Science and Engineering of Cryptanalysis in World War II
• The ENIAC pages (from the 1996 50th Anniversary celebrations)
• EDSAC99 (from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory 50th Anniversary celebrations)
• CSIRAC, an early Australian computer
• Chronology of Digital Computing Machines (up to 1952)
• ENIAC and EDVAC descriptions from the Historical Monograph "Electronic Computers within the Ordnance Corps" produced by the U.S. Army in the early 1960s. (Note that the existence of computers outside the US had clearly not penetrated the military psyche at the time it was written -- especially in the famous Computer Tree page, where one has to assume that "United States" implicitly qualifies "computer(s)" everywhere!)
• Tommy Thomas, who worked on the 1948 machine, has his own page on the early years at Manchester

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