In a similar vein I just finished reading "the man who invented the computer" by Jane Smiley. It's mainly about John Atanasoff but it includes other important figures of early computer development such as Turing, Zuse, Mauchly,Eckert, Von Neumann... Just came but worth buying if you don't know the story of the ABC and it's relationship to ENIAC.
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