Chronology of Digital Computing through 1952

A plain-text chronology of digital computing machines from antiquity through 1952, originally compiled and posted to Usenet by Mark Brader and later mirrored on the web by another maintainer. It traces key developments (ABC, Z3, ENIAC, SSEC, Manchester Baby, EDSAC) and discusses the difficulty of naming a single 'first computer,' citing books by Augarten, Williams, Zuse, and others as sources. The document is maintained as a public-domain reference rather than an institutional archive.