[A historical approach to computing].

Abstract

Half a century after computers' conception, its effects, already reaching all human domains, seem to aim at becoming a universal transition similar to that one which marked in Occident the passage from artisanal production to industrial production among the 18 and 19 centuries, as from mechanisation to universal automation. It's considered that if this supposition may be correct, it would be urgent to intensify the historical approach of Informatics already present in may countries but not in ours. It's proposed the gradual incorporation of history of informatics in university careers beginning from research centers including teachers and researchers preparation, production and publication of works and the creation of museums and archives, to preserve physical testimonies and origin documents and the initial evolution of this scientific-technical invention which honours our century.