Biographies, an interactive game, and a questions and answers forum trace the birth of the personal computer at this PBS companion site.

New updated edition from MIT Press, with new interviews of historic characters.

by Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of computing; includes Babbage, Turing, von Neumann, Engelbart, PARC, Kay, and Atari.

Pictures, documents, and advertisements of classic computers from the 1970's and 1980's.

Historical survey from Babbage onward; by B. Jack Copeland from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Lecture presented by Michelle A. Hoyle explaining how computers and computing science arose from using sticks with notches for counting, to the massive explosion of personal computers in the 1980s.

Offers a detailed timeline on the history of computer. Sections include hardware, software, pioneers and references.

Detailed information including early pioneers and companies, archives, languages, and networking from the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.

An international organization which aims to promote and develop interest in the use of computers in all types of historical study at every level, in both teaching and research.

In San Francisco Bay Area; background, history, future: trends, forecasts.