Smithsonian Magazine

Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women—Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern Science

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early ...
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Apple’s first computer is 50 and it’s nothing like you remember

Back in 1976, the Apple I showed that a computer for the rest of us meant something very different from today ...
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The computer book : from the abacus to artificial intelligence, 250 milestones in the history of computer science / Simson L. Garfinkel and Rachel H. Grunspan

C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus -- c. 700 BC: Scytale -- c. 150: Antikythera mechanism -- c. 60: Programmable robot -- c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages ...