Notes

Selected Works of Computer History Museum

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, Reckoners, the Prehistory of the Digital Computer, from Relays to the Stored Program Concept, 1935-1945 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983). Also available online at http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/DocumentArchive/Documents/Books/Reckoners/Reckoners.html (Computer History Museum, accessed 2003 Sep 27).

Herman Hollerith, "Complete Specification: Improvements in the Methods of and Apparatus for Compiling Statistics," http://www.computerhistory.org/archive/Hollerith patent.pdf (Computer History Museum, accessed 2004 Sep 15). This is the original patent of the card tabulating machinery for the 1890 US census.

John Napier, Rabdologiae (1617). Also available online at http://www.computerhistory.org/archive/rabdologiae.pdf (Computer History Museum, accessed 2003 Sep 29). This famous book (in Latin) includes works on Napier's bones, the chessboard calculator, and multiplicationis promptuario.