The first session looks at the history of computing from the time just before electronic computers to the first commercial computing systems.

Videos contain clips from old lectures and interviews with the pioneers of electronic computing, along with still and moving images of many of the first computers.

While some clips show their age, the videos give a rare opportunity to glimpse the world as it was and gain insight into the incredible hurdles that had to be overcome to bring about the dawn of modern computing.

More details on the internal version of this page. Some computing history related links...

Wikipedia: Computer History
FinancialForce Cloud Computing Software and Data Storage History (Thanks to Anna)
HP CS Virtual Resource Centre (Thanks to Sarah from Lyndhurst STEM Club for Girls)
Microprocessors
Manchester Baby and Tommy Flowers
Max Newman
Bletchley Park
Computer Conservation Society
National Physical Laboratory
National Museum of Computing
http://www.computer50.org/
ACM Annals
Computer History Museum
Centre for Computing History
Charles Babbage Institute
Software History
History Resources Society and History of Technology
History of Computing
American University Computing History Museum
Internet History
Multics
Home Computers
Old Computers
Binary Dinosaurs
Timeline of Computer Storage
Brief History of the Internet
Hedy Lamarr (Wikipedia)
LEO (Wikipedia, Warwick, Telegraph)