Some Computer Pioneers
Aiken
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Aiken.html
Atanasoff
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/jva/jva-archive.shtml
http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/gallery/mauchly/jwm7.html
Babbage
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/index.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Babbage.html
Bush, Vannevar
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm
http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~duchier/misc/vbush/
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0034.html
http://web.mit.edu/sts001/www/Team8/case3.htm
Copernicus (side story--need for computers)
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/retrograde/copernican.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Copernicus.html
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/copernican_system.html
Eckert
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Eckert_John.html
Galileo (side story--need for computers)
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galileo.html
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Student_Work/Astronomy96/
http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/museo/b/egalilg.html
Hollerith
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hollerith.html
http://www.invent.org/book/book-text/57.html
http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/hollerith/
Hopper
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hopper.html
Jacquard
http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0075/00951296_A.html
Leibniz
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Leibniz.html
http://www.dotpoint.com/xnumber/pic_reckoner.htm
http://www.maxmon.com/1670ad.htm
Mauchly
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Mauchly.html
Lovelace
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Lovelace.html
http://www.scottlan.edu/lriddle/women/love.htm
http://www.well.com/user/adatoole/bio.htm
Pascal
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pascal.html
http://www.eingang.org/Lecture/pascaline.html
http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~greg/calculators/pascal/Pascaline's_Gallery.htm
Stibitz
http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bredshaw/stibitz.htm