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Computer History Museum; Computers: From the Past to the Present; The First "Computer Bug" at the Naval History and Heritage Command Photo Archives. Bitsavers, an effort to capture, salvage, and archive historical computer software and manuals from minicomputers and mainframes of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s; Oral history interviews
Computer science is more theoretical (Turing's essay is an example of computer science), whereas software engineering is focused on more practical concerns. However, prior to 1946, software as we now understand it – programs stored in the memory of stored-program digital computers – did not yet exist.
The Computer History in time and space, Graphing Project, an attempt to build a graphical image of computer history, in particular operating systems. The Computer Revolution/Timeline at Wikibooks "File:Timeline.pdf - Engineering and Technology History Wiki" (PDF). ethw.org. 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-10-31
SIG on Computers, Information and Society of the Society for the History of Technology; The Modern History of Computing; A Chronology of Digital Computing Machines (to 1952) by Mark Brader; Bitsavers, an effort to capture, salvage, and archive historical computer software and manuals from minicomputers and mainframes of the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s
SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer) demonstrated at US NBS in Washington, DC – was the first fully functional stored-program computer in the U.S. May 1950: UK The Pilot ACE computer, with 800 vacuum tubes, and mercury delay lines for its main memory, became operational on 10 May 1950 at the National Physical Laboratory near London.
Stephen White's Computer history site (the above article is a modified version of his work, used with permission) Digital Deli, edited by Steve Ditlea, full text of the classic computer book; Collection of old analog and digital computers at Old Computer Museum; ZX81 Computer Online Museum; Yahoo Computers and History
A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952. It was not until the mid-20th century that the word acquired its modern definition; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word computer was in a different sense, in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [] read the truest computer of Times, and the best ...
In Praise of Wimps: Social History of Computer Programming - Some Work in Progress - Including a Chronology and an Extensive Bibliography. Alice publications. Ito, Mizuko (2009). Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children's Software (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digi). MIT Press. Johnson, Luanne, ed. (2003).