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William Aspray, ed., Computing Before Computers (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1990 ). Also available online at http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/DocumentArchive/Documents/Books/Computing Before Computers/CBC.html (Computer History Museum, accessed 2004 Aug 11).

Paul E. Ceruzzi, A History of Modern Computing, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003). [Preview]

John Ruszkiewicz, Maxine Hairston, and Christy Friend, SF Express (New York: Longman, 2002). [Preview] This is a compact writer's handbook that has been used until recently in UT undergraduate rhetoric and composition courses such as RHE 306, a strongly recommended prerequisite for this course.