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History of Annals of the History of Computing in 183 Chapters

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Latest Issue

2025
2025, no. 1: Communication and Commerce

Latest Issue:
Communication and Commerce

  • Big Baggy Shorts: Recovering Data From Canada's Telidon System
  • Presence of IBM Data Processing Equipment in Latin America, 1920s-1980s, and Insights for Historians
  • Mechanical Numeracy: Thinking With the Soroban Abacus in Modern Japan
  • Netnews: The Origin Story
  • In Defense of Model-Makers: Adding a New Point to the Computer Conservation Continuum
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2024
2024, no. 1: Computing Standards, Maintenance, Challenges

A Year Ago:
Computing Standards, Maintenance, Challenges

  • Text Standards for the "Rest of World": The Making of the Unicode Standard and the OpenType Format
  • The Computer History Museum's 2023 in Review
  • Lady Lovelace's Objection: The Turing-Hartree Disputes Over the Meaning of Digital Computers, 1946-1951
  • Interview of Morris Chang
  • Easy Reciprocals
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2020
2020, no. 1: History of Desktop Publiching: Font Technology and Marketing

5 Years Ago:
History of Desktop Publiching: Font Technology and Marketing

  • From the Editor's Desk
  • Interleaf, Inc. - 1981 to 2000
  • The Font Wars, Part 2
  • The Advent of Digital Typography
  • The Font Wars, Part 1
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2015
2015, no. 1: Red Clone: Personal Computing in the Soviet Era

10 Years Ago:
Red Clone: Personal Computing in the Soviet Era

  • Augmentative, Alternative, and Assistive: Reimagining the History of Mobile Computing and Disability
  • Reviews [4 books reviewed]
  • "There Is No Saturation Point in Education": Inside IBM's Sales School, 1970s-1980s
  • The Production and Interpretation of ARPANET Maps
  • Andrew V. Haeff: Enigma of the Tube Era and Forgotten Computing Pioneer
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2010
2010, no. 1: Streching Computer Technology

15 Years Ago:
Streching Computer Technology

  • Intel's 8086
  • State Support for the Expansion of UK University Computing in the 1950s
  • From the Editor's Desk
  • Jean Carteron
  • Privatizing the Internet: Competing Visions and Chaotic Events, 1987–1995
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2005
2005, no. 1: Computing in Japan

20 Years Ago:
Computing in Japan

  • Anecdotes
  • Events and Sightings
  • Hollerith Punched Card System Development (1905-1913)
  • The Rise and Fall of Plug-Compatible Mainframes
  • The History of Computing at the Consumption Junction
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1979
1979, no. 1:

Premiere Issue:

  • The BINAC: A Case Study in the History of Technology
  • The History of the JOHNNIAC
  • The History of FORTRAN I, II and III
  • Early Work on Computers at Bletchley
  • General AFIPS History of Computing Activities
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