History of Computing

I'm currently working on my dissertation, which, in the big picture is a look at how computerization changed the structure of American high-tech industry. I am using SHARE, the IBM scientific computing users' group, as a starting point. Here is my prospectus, which describes in some detail what I am doing.

The central Web resource on the history of computing.

My paper--a brief narrative (and slightly triumphalist) history--on the Rice University Computer.

I apologize that the tables and sub- and superscripts are HTML 3.0; I hope your browser can cope with them. I wasn't the one who left these indispensable features out of the HTML DTD so long. I've lost interest in following the evolving Browser Wars, and so I hope they're HTML 3.2 compliant, but I haven't actually tried to find out whether or not they are.

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