[citelao]

What would be a good, more academic overview of computing history? Do you have any specific book recommendations? I'd love to read a more "citation-based" version.

[nappy]

Not sure about academic history, but in a single volume, this does a good job on early 20th century computer history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_Factory

[mjbrusso]

The First Computers

History and Architectures

Edited by Raúl Rojas and Ulf Hashagen

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262681377/the-first-computers/

[cfmcdonald]

IMO the best overall "soup to nuts" survey of the history of computers is Campbell-Kelly, et. al., "Computer: A History of the Information Machine."

Specifically on the relation of telecommunications to computers I will toot my own horn and recommend my book, McDonald, "How the Telegraph, Telephone, and Radio Created the Computer."