The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. It's half-comic-book, half-historical-footnotes. It's a very fun way to look at the early history of computin

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. It's half-comic-book, half-historical-footnotes. It's a very fun way to look at the early history of computing. You see history as it could have been by reading a comic and you see history as it was by reading footnotes. Both of them are given about an equal amount of space in the book. There are great appendices that describe how the hardware performed arithmetic.