Request: Books/articles about history of early computing (pre 1950)

[Don Shepherd]

Quote:I was hoping that the book she used to teach herself FORTRAN had been written by McCracken. No such luck, though. 8^)

I looked high and low for that book she used in the movie, without success. I think it must have been a movie prop. The earliest book I could find titled "Understanding FORTRAN" was by Mary McCammon in 1968, and its cover is nothing like the cover of the book in the movie.