Chapter 1 Introducing the Early Digital

Chapter 2 Inventing an Analog Past and a Digital Future in Computing

Chapter 3 Forgotten Machines: The Need for a New Master Narrative

Chapter 4 Calvin Mooers, Zatocoding, and Early Research on Information Retrieval

Chapter 5 Switching the Engineer’s Mind-Set to Boolean: Applying Shannon’s Algebra to Control Circuits and Digital Computing (1938–1958)

Chapter 6 The ENIAC Display: Insignia of a Digital Praxeology

Chapter 7 The Evolution of Digital Computing Practice on the Cambridge University EDSAC, 1949–1951

Chapter 8 The Media of Programming

Chapter 9 Foregrounding the Background: Business, Economics, Labor, and Government Policy as Shaping Forces in Early Digital Computing History