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ADA BYRON KING

Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace Brief biography for the mathematician, aristocrat, and author of the first published computer program.
Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers Home page for Betty Alexandra Toole's Ada biography.
Repurposing Ada Michael Mattis Salon magazine feature on Ada: history vs myth.

TECHNICAL NEWS, MAGS, ETC.

Articles My own software reviews - mainly about mathematical software - for Scientific Computing World magazine.
Difference of Opinion Archive of the Babbage and Lovelace diary column, co-written by me and Felix Grant, from Scientific Computing World.

American Scientist Bi-monthly science mag: check out the computing and mathematics archives.
New Scientist Website of the UK-published general science magazine.
NTK Need to Know, scurrilous weekly e-zine on British computing and media current affairs.
The Register "Biting the hand the feeds IT": UK computer gossip zine.
Science News Online Weekly news magazine of well-referenced popular science articles.
Scientific American premier US science magazine.
Scientific Computing World Cambridge Publishers Ltd's magazine on all aspects of scientific computing.
SciTech Daily Review Excellent compilation site: science news, reviews and links.

CHARLES BABBAGE

The Analytical Engine Fourmilab on-line museum; includes historical documents and a Java emulator for Babbage's machine.
The Babbage Pages Charles Babbage: computing pioneer, inventor, eccentric, and street music hater (page by biographer Anthony Hyman).
Charles Babbage Readable biography at Virginia Tech's history of computing site.

COMPUTING HISTORY

Alan Turing Home Page Official web page - a creative and encyclopaedic scrapbook - by Andrew Hodges, author of Alan Turing, The Enigma.
Bletchley Park: "Station X". The installation where WW2 Enigma messages were decoded.
The Curta Calculator Page Rick Furr's site for the cult 'coffee-grinder'.
CURTA.de German Curta site.
Dead Media Project to document the history of defunct media for data transfer, storage and presentation, from the Incan quipu to Teddy Ruxpin, cuneiform to electric telegraph, the zootrope to CP/M.
The Early History of Data Networks: online book on the origins of modern datacomms in telegraphy protocols of the 1800s.
Thomas Fowler 19th century inventor from Great Torrington, Devon, whose base-3 rod calculator might have surpassed Babbage Engines.
Thomas Fowler's ternary machine: reconstruction by Mark Glusker.
The history of computing Archives at the Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech.
The Mechanical Analog Computers of Hannibal Ford and William Newell WW2 analogue gunnery computers.
Mechanical Calculators: my favourite bit of the Vintage Calculators Web Museum.
Odhner calculator memorial site History of a classic mechanical calculator.
Totalizator History Amazing racetrack odds and ticket computers; Australian Babbage Engines basically.
Vintage Calculators James Redin's site devoted to old calculators.
Vintage Calculators Web Museum Another nicely-presented calculator site.
Virtual Museum of Computing Oxford University's on-line computing museum; many sites and links.

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