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SomeWikipedians have formed atask force to better organize information in articles related toearly computers (for which purpose early computers are loosely described as anything before those usingintegrated circuits). This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this task force will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see theto-do list there.

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This task force is a place to co-ordinate work on the numerous Wikipedia pages about early computers.

• Jnc|Talk
• User:Matt Crypto — I'm interested in earlycryptanalytic hardware, including computers/proto-computers like theColossus and theBombes.
• pavlosh|Talk
• Walksonwalls|Talk
• Bubba73|Talk - inactive, though. I did quite a bit on early computers several months ago, but none lately.
• Spyza|Talk
• RTC|Talk
• It's me,User:MiKE100malloy; wanna drop me a line at myTalk page? I like the old computers, and hope to contribute more to the project.
• -- TinuCherian ^{(Wanna Talk?)} -06:42, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• --mikeu^talk12:00, 27 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• User:W Nowicki|Talk
• Stutya|Talk
• --agr (talk)19:45, 12 September 2012 (UTC) Is this still active?[reply]
• Bduke (talk) I first started computing on a very early computer, coding in Mercury Autocode, in 1960, so I am happy to work in this project, particularity if it becomes more active.

We are starting with a very limited list of goals; however, free free to add more (after discussion on the Talk: page, of course).

• To standardize classification of early computers into several differentCategories. See/Generations for a draft article on the stages of early computer development.

• {{User Early computers task force}}

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Early computers articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2						2
GA		2				1	3
B	2	10	7	2		3	24
C	4	50	40	21		14	129
Start	3	30	51	45		53	182
Stub		1	9	17		32	59
List		1	2	1			4
Category					157		157
File					1		1
Project					3		3
Redirect			2		12		14
Template					1		1
Assessed	11	94	111	86	174	103	579
Unassessed						12	12
Total	11	94	111	86	174	115	591
WikiWork factors (?)		ω =1,854			Ω = 4.66

• Category:Early computers articles
• Category:Early computers
• Category:One-of-a-kind computers

• History of computing hardware

The list got rather long, and has been moved to/Books.

• The single most important source is probably theAnnals of the History of Computing series; there is an online index of the issueshere, but the articles themselves are only free to IEEE members, etc.

• The Charles Babbage Institute has a massive collection oforal histories of computer pioneers online; thecomplete list is rather lengthy.

• The University of Manchester has a great web siteBirth of the Modern Computer, which includes a goodlinks page.

• The late (and much missed)Mike Muuss collected a large number of original documents relating to early computer work in the US, atHistory of Computing Information

• Some info relating toearly computer work in the USSR (there used to besuch country :-) with focus toUkraine.

• List of books about Soviet computers[1] on the Kiev Museum server.

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