A short slide show with images from the early history of computing, from human computers to ENIAC and the DEC PDP-1

1. Human computers at work

2. ENIAC

3. ENIAC

4. Whirlwind

5. UNIVAC

6. UNIVAC Console

7. UNIVAC and Walter Cronkite

8. PDP-1 with CRT visual display

9. PDP-1 with Steve Russell,
creator of Spacewar!

10. ASR-33 Teletype Terminal

11. Attributions
Human computers, "Human computers - Dryden" by NACA (NASA) - Dryden
Flight Research Center Photo Collection -
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/Places/HTML/E49-54.html.
Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Human_computers_-
_Dryden.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Human_computers_-_Dryden.jpg
"Eniac" by Unknown - U.S. Army Photo. Licensed under Public domain via
Wikimedia Commons -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eniac.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Eni
ac.jpg
"Two women operating ENIAC" by United States Army - Image from [1].
Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_women_operating_ENIAC.
gif#mediaviewer/File:Two_women_operating_ENIAC.gif

12. Whirlwind, 1951
https://www.ll.mit.edu/about/History/earlydigitalcomputing.html
"UNIVAC-I-BRL61-0977". Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia
Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UNIVAC-I-BRL61-
0977.jpg#mediaviewer/File:UNIVAC-I-BRL61-0977.jpg
"Univac I at CHM.agr" by ArnoldReinhold - Own work. Licensed under
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
-
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Univac_I_at_CHM.agr.jpg#me
diaviewer/File:Univac_I_at_CHM.agr.jpg
"UNIVAC 1 demo" by U.S. Census Bureau - Copied from English Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:UNIVAC_1_demo.jpg. Licensed under
Public domain via Wikimedia Commons -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UNIVAC_1_demo.jpg#mediaviewer
/File:UNIVAC_1_demo.jpg

13. "PDP-1" by Matthew Hutchinson -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hiddenloop/307119987/. Licensed under CC
BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PDP-1.jpg#mediaviewer/File:PDP-
1.jpg
PDP-1 and Steve Russell "Steve Russell and PDP-1" by Alex Handy (cropped
by Arnold Reinhold) -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steve_Russell_and_PDP-1_-
_Vintage_Computer_Fair_2006.jpg. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via
Wikimedia Commons -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steve_Russell_and_PDP-
1.png#mediaviewer/File:Steve_Russell_and_PDP-1.png
"ASR-33 at CHM.agr" by ArnoldReinhold - Own work. Licensed under
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ASR-
33_at_CHM.agr.jpg#mediaviewer/File:ASR-33_at_CHM.agr.jpg