In a wonderful piece of kitsch someone has scanned a “How Do Computers Work” book from 1970 an put the scans on a web page. An example of the chapters:
Inside Cover
Title Page
What Are Computers?
How Computers Developed
Different Designs
Data Processing
The Main Parts Of A Computer
Combining The Parts
The Computer Code
Reading The Code/The Input Unit
Recording Information On Magnetic Tape
Operation of Magnetic Tape Unit
‘Writing’ The Code
The Computer Store
‘Words’, ‘Bits’ and ‘Addresses’
The Magnetic Core Store
‘Gates’ and ‘Highways’
Computer Arithmetic
Binary Arithmetic
Programming
The Control Unit
The Magnetic Drum
The Disc Store
The Output Unit
Teleprocessing
Does A Computer Make Mistakes?
This Year, Next Year, Sometime…?
Glossary Of Terms
Back Cover
This REALLY makes you appreciate what we have now 
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