Exploring the Early Digital

Introduction.- 2. Inventing an Analog Past and a Digital Future in Computing.- 3. Forgotten Machines: The Need For a New Master Narrative.- 4. Calvin Mooers, Zatocoding, and Early Research on Information Re-trieval.- 5. Switching the Engineer's Mind set to Boolean. Applying Shannon's Al-gebra to Control Circuits and Digital Computing (1938-1958).- 6. The ENIAC Display: Insignia of a Digital Praxeology.- 7. The Evolution of Digital Computing Practice on the Cambridge Uni-versity EDSAC, 1949-1951.- 8. The Media of Programming.- 9. Foregrounding the Background: Business, Economics, Labor, and Government Policy as Shaping Forces in Early Digital Computing His-tory.- 10. The Man with a Micro-calculator: Digital Modernity and Late Sovi-et Computing Practices.