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* M. D. Fagen (editor), ''National Service in War and Peace (1925-1975)'', Volume II of ''A History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System'' (Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1978)

* David M. Yates, ''Turing's Legacy: A History of Computing at the National Physical Laboratory, 1945-1995'' (Science Museum, London, 1997)

* Arthur L. Norberg, Judy E. O'Neill, Kerry J. Freedman, ''Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986'' (JohnJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1996)

* Adele Goldberg, ''History of Personal Workstations'' (Addison Wesley Professional, Boston, 1988) Also covers some early machines, e.g. the [[LINC]]

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* Jim E. Thornton, ''Design of A Computer: The Control Data 6600'' (Scott, Foresman, Glenview, 1970)

==Biographies - Individualsindividuals==

Relevant biographies:

* Andrew Hodges, ''Alan Turing: The Enigma'' (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1983) The definitive bio of him; although there are a couple of later ones which include some recently-released classified info which wasn't in this one, they are short and poorly sourced, so this is still the preferred one.

* Maurice Wilkes, ''Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer'' (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1985)

* Herman Lukoff, ''From Dits to Bits: A Personal History of the Electronic Computer'' (Robotics, Portland, 1979)

* David E. Lundstrom, ''A Few Good Men from Univac'' (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1987)

==Biographies - Groupgroup==

* Gareth Ashurst, ''Pioneers of Computing'' (Frederick Muller, London, 1983)

* David Ritchie, ''The Computer Pioneers: The Making of the Modern Computer'' (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1986)

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