Introducing the early digital

Thomas Haigh

1-18

Inventing an analog past and a digital future in computing

Ronald R. Kline

19-39

Forgotten machines

the need for a new master narrative

Doron Swade

41-68

Calvin Mooers, zatocoding, and early research on information retrieval

Paul E. Ceruzzi

69-86

Switching the engineer's mind-set to boolean

applying Shannon's algebra to control circuits and digital computing (1938–1958)

Maarten Bullynck

87-99

The eniac display

insignia of a digital praxeology

Tristan Thielmann

101-116

The evolution of digital computing practice on the Cambridge University Edsac, 1949–1951

Martin Campbell-Kelly

117-134

The media of programming

Mark Priestley, Thomas Haigh

135-158

Foregrounding the background

business, economics, labor, and government policy as shaping forces in early digital computing history

William Aspray, Christopher Loughnane

159-178

"The man with a micro-calculator"

digital modernity and late Soviet computing practices

Ksenia Tatarchenko

179-200