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

[pier4r]

Is "Nigel (UK)" by chance the author of this nice site?
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/m...ators.html

PS: once again, I do not know why but sites that are very simple but with a lot of interesting content are way more appealing than facebook-like sites with almost nothing inside. Long live to those 1995 looking sites that have a lot of info. (this is also a reason I like wikis)